People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential candidate in the February 23 election Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has finally dragged President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, to court for her alleged libellous tweet via her Twitter handle on May 7, 2019. He is demanding for N2,5bn.
The post allegedly suggested that Atiku was on the watch list of security operatives in the United Arab Emirates and had travelled to shop for terrorists in the Middle East.
Atiku, through his lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), filed a N2.5bn suit against Onochie before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja on June 26.
“To say that the claimant is shopping for terrorists knowing same to be untrue and without any foundation is not only dishonest and reckless, but is calculated and politically designed to instigate security agents against him not only in the UAE, but across the world,” he stated in his statement of claim accompanying the suit.”