{"id":67390,"date":"2019-06-30T14:58:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T13:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=67390"},"modified":"2019-06-30T14:58:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T13:58:42","slug":"atiku-files-n2-5bn-libel-suit-against-buharis-aide-lauretta-onochie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/atiku-files-n2-5bn-libel-suit-against-buharis-aide-lauretta-onochie\/","title":{"rendered":"Atiku files N2.5bn libel suit against Buhari\u2019s aide, Lauretta Onochie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gs\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\":p6\" class=\"ii gt\">\n<div id=\":oh\" class=\"a3s aXjCH \">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div>Former Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has carried out his threat to sue President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s Special Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, for her alleged libellous tweet via her Twitter handle on May 7, 2019.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The post allegedly suggested that Atiku was on the watch list of security operatives in the United Arab Emirates and had travelled to shop for terrorists in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku, through his lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), filed a N2.5bn suit against Onochie before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja on June 26.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo say that the claimant is shopping for terrorists knowing same to be untrue and without any foundation is not only dishonest and reckless, but is calculated and politically designed to instigate security agents against him not only in the UAE, but across the world,\u201d he stated in his statement of claim accompanying the suit.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"hi\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has carried out his threat to sue President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s Special Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, for her alleged libellous tweet via her Twitter&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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