A suit of N5 billion has been slammed on The Sun Newspapers owned by former Abia State governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, by the first son of the incumbent governor, Chinedu Orji, over a publication contained in its March, 2014 edition.
According to one of the legal aides of the incumbent governor, Chukwunyere Nwabuko, the offensive publication, carried on Page 21 of the March 10, 2014 edition, had described Chinedu as a known terrorist.
Nwabuko, who briefed newsmen in Umuahia, maintained that the publication was libellous in its entirety and ridiculed him before well-thinking members of the public as well as his business associates, who have subsequently been avoiding doing businesses with him.
Nwabuko told newsmen that the former governor, Kalu, had masterminded the publication using his newspaper, saying since then, several other malicious and libellous articles had been instigated against the incumbent Governor Theodore Orji and Chinedu, his son.
According to the legal aide, Chinedu holds no position in the present administration, save only that he is the first son of the governor.
He added that such untoward publications ought not to have been published in the first instance, except for mischief and to bring him low in the eyes of right thinking members of the public and his business associates.
In the suit with NO HOH/5/2014, instituted at the Ohafia High Court, Abia State, the claimant, Chinedu, is demanding, among other things, “the sum of N5, 000,000,000 as damages for libel, an unreserved apology to be published in at least three editions of the Daily Sun Newspaper.
Chinedu is also demanding an order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendants, their agents, privies, servants and associates from further writing, printing and publishing the said libellous matter or a similar one against the claimant.”
SOURCE:Daily Independent
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