The founder of the Mountain
of Fire & Miracles Ministries (MFM), Dr. D.K. Olukoya, has filed a fresh N2
billion libel suit against Omoyele Sowore.
In the suit filed before
the High Court of Akwa Ibom State, Uyo, Sahara Reporters Incorporation and
Objective Media Group Limited were listed as the 2nd and 3rd defendants.
Olukoya in the court
papers, accused Sowore of consistently churning out publications that are
defamatory to his person. Olukoya and his church are claiming N2 billion
against the defendants for alleged aggravated libel and have asked the courty
for order compelling Sowore and his media platforms to pull down and erase each
of the offending posts from the internet forthwith.
They are also praying for
an order directing the defendants to tender written apology and retraction in
form and content acceptable to the claimants and published prominently in
Sahara Reporters online news media, on Facebook and in at least three nationally
circulating newspapers and two international magazines, including TIME
International.
In addition, the clergyman
is asking the court to issiue an order of perpetual injunction restraining the
defendants by themselves, his agents, servants, privies or other persons
howsoever called or described, from further making, publishing and/or
disseminating libellous stories and statements against the claimants or any one
of them.
In the court papers, the
clergyman alleged that Sowore and Sahara Reporters on September 4th, 2018, made
and posted a video recording of Sowore addressing a crowd of his purported
political supporters on their respective Facebook pages under the heading
“Breaking! Sowore Reveals Why MFM General Overseer Daniel Olukoya Is After Him,
as He Arrives Lagos”. The video was published after the clergyman had filed a
seperate suit against Sowore and Sahara reporters.
In the said video, Sowore
was alleged to have falsely and maliciously said to have spoken and published
against the the clergyman and his church the following words inter alia namely:
“On Olukoya, very important
because this is the latest that happened. I have done reporting on many cabals
and you know in this country there are religious cabals, political cabals,
traditional cabals and family cabals so I touched all of them not only Olukoya.
Remember the one that was sleeping with a prostitute in Canada…
It was then
that he then went and looked for a Judge in Uyo. Imagine a man of God that is
on Lagos – Ibadan Expressway now going to look for a judge in a case that
doesn’t even involve them. My suspicion is that they found a judge who is
probably a member of their Church who said that he will teach Sowore a lesson.
That is not going to happen…”
No date has been fixed for
hearing on the N2 billion libel suit.
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