Babatunde Fashola, a former minister of works and housing, filed a complaint with the Inspector General of Police (IGP) on what he considered to be defamatory social media remarks.
According to Newsmen, @Jackson Ude, a Twitter user, said that Fashola and a few attorneys for the All Progressives Congress (APC) were preparing a favourable ruling for the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT).
Ude said that the tribunal judges would receive a copy of Fashola’s written decision.
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However, Fashola claimed that the accusation was spread via Twitter by Ude, Yoruba Sheikh, and Reportera.NG in a petition prepared by his attorney, Olanrewaju Akinsola, and addressed to the IGP.
The former minister noted that the claim has excessively breached the decent fundamentals of public enlightenment, as the allegation amounts to character assassination.
The petition reads: “It is the position of our client that the publications by the said Jackson Ude, @ReporteraNew and @yorubasheik are false in their entirety and have excessively breached the decent fundamentals of public enlightenment that freedom of the press is constitutionally about.
“The three publications amount to character assassination with a calculated view to achieving damaging effects against our client in his profession as a legal practitioner.
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“The accusations are made to cause inconvenience, criminal intimidation, enmity, danger, hatred, and needless anxiety to our client, contrary to the provisions of Section 24 of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, Etc.) Act 2015.
“We hereby request your office to investigate the publications with utmost urgency and seriousness as they also have implications for the independence, impartiality, and integrity of the Nigerian judiciary guaranteed by Section 17 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999.”
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