Fayemi sues Arise TV, former Ekiti commissioner for defamation, demands N500m

The immediate past Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, has filed a N500 million suit against Arise Television and a former Commissioner for Information in the state, Kayode Otitoju, for alleged defamation and malicious airing of offending broadcast against him.

The former governor is demanding N250 million from Arise TV and another N250 million from Otitoju for alleged defamatory comments made by the commissioner as an analyst on the television station on November 22, 2022.

In the suit, HAD/10/2023, filed on January 25, 2023, before an Ekiti State High Court, and made available to newsmen on Sunday, through his lawyer, Babatunde Oke, Fayemi is demanding a retraction of the defamatory statements by the first defendant (Otitoju) while appearing as an analyst on Arise TV.

Fayemi also demanded a public apology published in at least three national newspapers in Nigeria and posted on the internet/social media. He also seeks the leave of the court for a perpetual injunction restraining the defendants from making further defamatory publications or statements against him as he also demands the sum of N20 million cost of the suit from them. As well as the 10 per cent interest on the judgment sum from the date the judgment is delivered until the sum is finally liquidated.