Kogi
West lawmaker, Dino Melaye has promised to tender his credentials in
court as he slams U.S-based news platform, Sahara Reporters with a law
suit.
Senator Dino Melaye
Determined to prove that he was awarded a Bachelors Degree by the
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Senator Dino Melaye, on Thursday,
pledged to tender his certificate before a High Court of the Federal
Capital Territory sitting at Maitama.
Melaye, who is representing Kogi West in the Senate, said he would
tender the certificate during hearing of a N5billion libel suit he
slammed against an online media outlet, Sahara Reporters, which alleged
that he never graduated from the Geography Department of ABU Zaria.
In the suit he filed through his lawyer, Mr. Mark Ikongbeh, Senator
Melaye, insisted that he indeed bagged a B.Sc in Geography from the
University.
He told the court that the certificate scandal has exposed him to
great psychological stress and emotional trauma, saying he has been
abandoned by his friends and associates owing to the defamatory
publication by the defendants.
Cited as 1st to 4th defendants in the suit marked M/4812/17, were,
the Incorporated Trustees of Sahara Reporters Media Foundation, Omoyele
Sowore, Temitope Olumuyide and Sahara Reporters Media Group Inc.
Aside praying the court to award him N5billion as aggravate and
exemplary damages for libel, the plaintiff also applied for an
injunction restraining the defendants, by themselves or by their
servants or agents, from making further publications on the issue.
He is equally seeking N10million as cost of the legal action. In
the statement of claim, the plaintiff told the court that a great number
of his constituents, friends, associates, foreign acquaintances have
felt so betrayed and let down by conducts maliciously and falsely
alleged against him by the defendants, to an extent that they have
ostracised him and have currently given him a wide berth.
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