Obaseki’s ex-CSO demands N3.6bn from APC chieftains for defamation
Adeyinka Adedeipe, Benin
A former Chief Security Adviser to Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, Mr. Haruna Abiona, has demanded N3.6bn from the Edo State Caretaker Committee Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, Col. David Imuse, (retd.), and three others for defamation of character.
Haruna, in a letter endorsed by his counsel, Ainabeholo Oseikhuemen, asked the APC chieftains, including Tony Kabaka Adun, Emperor Jarret Tenebe, State Deputy Chairman, Edo North and Adams Shaba, President, Professional Drivers on Wheels, to tender an apology and retract defamatory statements and publications against him within 14 days.
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Former Chief Security Adviser to Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, Mr Haruna Yusuf Abiona, has demanded the sum of N3.6 billion from the Edo State Caretaker Committee Chairman of the All Progressive Congress,(APC) Col David Imuse, Rtd. and three others for defamation of character.
Haruna, in a letter endorsed by his counsel, Ainabeholo Oseikhuemen, asked the APC chieftains: Imuse, Tony Kabaka Adun, Emperor Jarret Tenebe, State Deputy Chairman, Edo North and Adams Ehigiamusoe Shaba, President, Professional Drivers on Wheel, to tender apology and retraction of the defamatory statements and publications against him within 14 days.
While the retired police officer threatened to institute an action of defamation in the sum of N300 million each from Kabaka and Shaba, he threatened Tenebe N1 billion and Imuse, N2 billion suits respectively.
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Adeyinka Adedipe, Benin
The Edo State Caretaker Committee Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Col David Imuse (retd.), has called for the “immediate resignation” of Governor Godwin Obaseki, over his failure to protect lives and properties in the state.
In a statement on Sunday, Imuse berated the governor’s decision to plunge the state into more indebtedness with his recent borrowing of N25 billion from the capital market, while noting that the governor has shown gross disregard for the rule of law with his personal interest clashing with his official interest.
Imuse said, “No one is safe in Edo. The state is under siege. We have a governor who has lost focus. Fear and insecurity have become the order of the day, yet the Governor takes N700 million monthly as security vote. And so far, he has not been able to deploy this huge amount to mobilise the security agencies in the state to fight criminality.”