In the letter
sent by his lawyer, Adeola Adedipe of Ahmed Raji and co, Fani Kayode demands a
N6billion compensation for damages suffered in the article written by Iliyasu
Gadu.
The letter
dated 31 August was titled, “Re: Defamation of the character of Chief Femi
Fani-Kayode, by Iliyasu Gadu”.
It read: “Our
Client’s attention has been drawn to a spurious publication that was made at
your instance, on 30th August 2020, under the caption: ‘FFK, The drug-addled
thug in designer wears’ on the Daily Trust print media, and the online
platform.
“In that
hateful and malicious publication, you consciously elected to denigrate our
Client, in the manner hereunder summarised as follows: that he is a dirty
person and drug addict; he is a man of low esteem without dignity or
reputation; that he is a pariah and disgrace to his State of Origin; he lacks
character training in the best traditions of an English man and therefore unfit
to be an alumnus of the prestigious Cambridge University and the University of London;
he is not fit to have been called to the Nigerian Bar, as a Barrister and
Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria;” among other assertions.
“It is our
instruction to intimate you of this grievous breach on the character and
hard-earned reputation of our client with patent collateral damage on his
pedigree.
“Be aware
that our client has not only suffered an immeasurable loss of goodwill but he
is currently confronted with unbearable opprobrium by his fans, followers and
colleagues across the globe.
“Our Client
is alive to his rights. both in law and equity but is disposed to afford you an
opportunity to undo the evil you have done by retracting the said insalubrious
remarks on the same Platform it was published and apologising to him in two
other National Dailies.
“You are also
advised to enter into negotiations with us for the sum of Six Billion Naira,
being a token amount for penitence as opposed to the magnitude of infraction
caused to our Client’s nobility.”
Fani-Kayode
has been in the eye of the storm, after the encounter with the Daily Trust
reporter, Eyo Charles, in Calabar, in which he hurled insults at him, for daring
to ask him, who was bankrolling his tour of PDP states.
The viral
video that came out of the encounter earned counter-rebuke for him, from the
mediamen, who he had counted as friends.
He later
apologised.
But the Daily
Trust decided in between to take him to the cleaners, publishing the article by
Ilyasu Gadu, which touched on some raw nerves of the loquacious former
minister: his past drug life and family history.
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