{"id":84091,"date":"2021-07-27T17:49:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T16:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=84091"},"modified":"2021-07-27T17:49:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T16:49:54","slug":"secondus-slams-n5b-libel-suite-against-afegbua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/secondus-slams-n5b-libel-suite-against-afegbua\/","title":{"rendered":"Secondus slams N5b libel suite against Afegbua"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1706451813781499830\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The National Chairman of the People&#8217;s Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has dragged the former Edo state Commissioner for Information, Prince Kassim Afegbus to a Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court Abuja claiming N5b among others for libelous publications against him.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In the case Prince Secondus is claiming that the allegation by Prince Afegbua published by several media establishments within and outside the country claiming that he misappropriated the sum of Ten billion Naira belonging to the PDP\u00a0 libeled him as nothing of such happened.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In the writ of summons filed by Emeka Etiaba SAN against Prince Afegbua, Media Trust Ltd and the Sun Publishing Ltd, Prince Secondus is seeking a declaration of the court that the Prince Afegbua have failed to prove that the Peoples Democratic Party generated the sum of N10, 000, 000, 000.00 (Ten Billion Naira) from sale of Nomination Forms and\/or other sources since 2017.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0A Declaration that the publications complained against are false and malicious.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">A Declaration that the false and malicious publications made by the Defendants against the Claimant (the subjectmatter of this Suit) is Defamatory.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">And an order of this\u00a0 Court directing the Defendants to publish a written apology in all the News and Social media platforms including but not limited to the Daily Trust Newspaper, Daily Sun Newspaper, This Day Newspaper, The Guardian Newspaper, Punch Newspaper, Pilot, New Telegraph, The Nation, Nigerian Television Authority, African Independent Television, Channels Television among others where the Defamatory materials were published and in particular, the 2nd and 3rd Defendants\u2019 Newspapers.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">An Order of Perpetual Injunction restraining the Defendants, their agents and privies from further making the defamatory publications against the Claimant.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Damages for the sum of \u20a65,000,000,000.00 (Five Billion Naira) only, being general damages for the humiliation, castigation, vilification, attack of the Claimant\u2019s integrity and person by the defamatory publications.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Prince Secondus further claims that the publications are false and the said publications which the 1st Defendant knows to be false have brought him to odium and have seriously challenged his right standing in the society as a trustworthy character.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0Prince Secondus also noted that the libelous publications have been read by prominent members of the Peoples Democratic Party, members of the Public (both Nigerians and non-Nigerians) as they were published in several news and social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others operating both in Nigeria and in the whole world.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">And that the fact that the publications were read by the general public has been confirmed further by the phone calls that have trailed the said publications which calls were put across to the Claimant by his Pastors, Governors, Senators, Honourable Members of both Federal House of Representatives and State Houses of Assembly, Commissioners and many prominent members of the PeoplesDemocratic Party nationwide have portrayed his personality in bad light in the estimation of the right thinking or reasonable members of the public whose perception of him are that he is a person of fraudulent character, a person lacking in sincerity and integrity; person with greedy character; an incompetent personality in management of such an exalted office of the National Chairman of the PDP; an evil and untrustworthy person; and a person not worthy of public trust.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Before going to court Prince Secondus had 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