…Demands private and public apologies
A legal process of informing Senator Adams Aliu Oshiomole by solicitors to Dr Asue Ighodalo, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in the upcoming election has been instituted.
In the intended correspondent to Oshiomole, the solicitors, Ayo Asala (SAN) and Associates, demanded the retraction and unreserved apology for his malicious and slanderous statement against Ighodalo.
The letter read in part:
On or about 7th day of August 2024, our client’s attention was drawn to widely circulated statements made by you while being interviewed on a National Television Station, Arise News, during its Morning Show Program, touching and concerned our clients.
These statement have also seen widely circulated on various social media platforms including ‘X’ (formally called Twitter), ‘WhatsApp’ and ‘Facebook’ and others.
The letter further went on to instruct Oshiomole to write Ighodalo a private letter of apology of the false and defamatory utterance to be delivered to him. And also write a public letter of apology and retraction that will be published on Arise TV and in two National Newspapers, specifically, Vanguard and This Day Newspapers.
Attached is the full letter from the solicitors as made available to our Benin City correspondent.
