Popular businessman, Obi Cubana Sues PM Express N1b For Defamation

Obi Cubana has sued the writer of PM Express.

Obi Cubana filed a N1billion suit at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) over alleged libel.

According to GIOTV, Iyiegbu filed the suit on April 27, 2022, via his lawyer, Mr Afam Osigwe (SAN), claiming that the Lagos-based published suggesting that he was involved in drug trafficking.

Obi is seeking for the N1b as conventional damages for defamation of character, as properly as harm to businesses, expert and economic credit.

He is additionally seeking for an order of perpetual injunction – restraining the defendants from publishing the information article, which is the major matter of the court suit

In the suit marked CV/1367/2022, Iyiegbu averred that he had suffered extreme losses for the reason that the defendants – in their book of April 26, 2022, allegedly him as a drug baron whose bank money owed had been frozen with the aid of the orders of a Federal High Court in Lagos.

The defendants in the suit are David Odey, Arinze Alinnor, Funsho Arogundade, Cyriacus Izulekwe and Taiwo Adelu, carrying on commercial enterprise in the name and style of DAFCT Communications.

Chief Iyiegbu accused the defendants of ‘’maliciously’’ using his photography in publishing a story in which the whole story as well as mentioned court order had nothing to do with him.

According to the claimant, the defendants had on April 26, 2022, posted on their website: www.pmexpressng.com a story with the headline ‘’Court Orders Banks To Freeze Suspected Drug Barons’ Accounts’’ with his photograph used as that of one of the two suspected drug barons, Basil Okafor Onochie and Okwuchukwu Edwin Izuxhukwu, whose debts were reportedly ordered frozen by means of Justice Tijjani Ringim in the go well with filed by means of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

In helping his claim of malice towards the defendants he mentioned that he is a very normal figure, whose title and photograph (photo) can’t be wrong for either Basil Okafor Onochie or Okwuchukwu Edwin Izuchukwu, the suspected drug barons whose money owed have been ordered to be frozen by using the court.

According to him: “Defendants’ publication made using claimant’s picture was calculated to injure claimant’s reputation, by exposing him to hatred, contempt, ridicule.’’

He also prayed the court to make an order that interest in the above sum be calculated at the charge of 10% from the date of judgment until the last liquidation of the judgment sum.

While he also prayed for an order directing the defendants to carry out a global take-down or removal of the alleged defamatory content in opposition to the claimant on the internet, social media, Facebook etc, he entreated that the defendants tender a public apology in three unique national newspapers.