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Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, has waived his constitutional
immunity to “enable the most robust adjudication” of several baseless
allegations, insinuation and falsehoods against his person and office.
immunity to “enable the most robust adjudication” of several baseless
allegations, insinuation and falsehoods against his person and office.
Prof. Osinbajo made this declaration in a tweet he personally authored
on Wednesday afternoon.
Below is the full text of his tweet:
“In the past few days, a spate of reckless and malicious falsehoods have
been peddled in the media against me by a group of malicious
individuals.
“The defamatory and misleading assertions invented by this clique had
mostly been making the social media rounds anonymously.
“I have today instructed the commencement of legal action against two
individuals, one Timi Frank and another Katch Ononuju, who have put
their names to these odious falsehoods.
“I will waive my constitutional immunity to enable the most robust
adjudication of these claims of libel and malicious falsehood.”