Alleged Defamation, Inciting Statements: Oyo SDP Guber Candidate Demands N5bn from Party’s Chairman

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By; BAYO AKAMO,  Ibadan

Oyo State governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP)  in the last election, Barrister Michael Lana on Monday, demanded N5 billion damages from the state chairman of the party, Mr. Michael Okunlade, for defamation and inciting statements.

Barrister Lana in a letter dated March 20 by his counsel, Ola Adeosun, and addressed to Okunlade, threatens to drag the SDP state Chairman to court if he failed to meet his demands of retraction of the offensive statements to be published in a national daily newspaper, the internet and prominent social media platforms within three days of receiving the letter.

According to Barrister Lana, the SDP state Chairman defamed his character in an interview he granted a national newspaper by accusing him of collecting money from Governor Seyi Makinde, in order to support him for his re-election bid. 

Barrister Lana said in the interview which circulated in an online newspaper based in Ibadan, on the internet spaces around the world and on various social media platforms, Hon Okunlade ” described him as a rogue lacking in integrity”, stating that he knew that the assertion was false.

In the letter titled, “Publication and Circulation of Defamatory and Inciting Statements against Mr. Michael Folorunsho Lana. Demand for retraction and payment of Compensation”, Barrister Lana stated further that apart from misinforming the general public most especially the mass of young lawyers and younger generation of politicians who see him as a role model in terms of integrity in the interview, he painted him as a corrupt and irresponsible person that cannot be trusted by anybody. 

Barrister Lana stressed, ” it is important for Okunlade to know that in passing out information on anybody such must be factual, credible and truthful, noting that hence he must pay for his indiscretions”, 

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