Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, Femi Gbajabiamila, has filed a N15 billion defamation suit against Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew over allegations that he demanded a 48 per cent kickback from a N27.3 billion take-off grant approved for the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC).
Gbajabiamila is asking the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja to award him N10 billion as general damages, N5 billion as aggravated damages and N200 million as the cost of the suit.
He is also seeking an order compelling Adeyemi to publish a full retraction and apology in five national newspapers and pin the apology on all social media platforms where the allegations were published for 30 days.
The Chief of Staff, through his lawyers from Pinheiro LP led by Senior Advocate of Nigeria Kemi Pinheiro, described the allegations as false, malicious and defamatory.
Court documents showed that Adeyemi had alleged during a press conference that
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