Nigeria's former minister of aviation, Chief Olufemi Fani-Kayode has demanded an apology and 5 billion naira in damages from minister of transport and former governor of Rivers state, Rotimi Amaechi for comments he made in a recent interview on Channels TV, where he accused Fani-Kayode of embezzling 2 billion naira when he was heading the ministry of aviation.

FFK in a statement through his lawyers, obtained by Politics Nigeria, stated that Amaechi disparaged him by ‘his remarks, in the eyes of right-thinking members of the society; and these remarks have been found to be false and slanderous.’

Below is the full letter;

DPC/ABJ/04/034/2017

1st May 2017,

Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi,

Hon. Minister of Transportation

The Federal Republic of Nigeria

Federal Ministry of Transportation Complex

FCT-Abuja.

Dear sir,

Re: Defamation of Chief Femi Kani-Kayode by Hon. Rotimi Amaechi in an interview with the Channels TV Our representation is for Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, in respect of the afore-described occasion.

It has come to our notice that you granted an interview with Channels TV on Thursday the 27th of April 2017.

In that infamous interview which was broadcast throughout Nigeria and the United Kingdom, including postings and references to same in a myriad of social media platforms, you made some serious remarks and allegations against our Client, with respect to the role he played while serving as Minister of Aviation n 2007. You particularly alleged that our Client failed to repair the Port Harcourt Airport Runway, but “he ran away with the sum of Two Billion Naira which was transferred for that purpose to the Ministry of Aviation, by the Rivers State government, under the administration of the erstwhile Governor Peter Odili.

In addition to the above, by an emphatic and hysterical outburst, you unwittingly reiterated this obnoxious remark, despite an intervention by the moderator to guide you into caution, a tailored comment and an adjustment of the unguarded utterances. Apart from the fact that there is no modicum of truth in the wild and unsubstantiated remark, it is on a verifiable record that Messrs Julius Berger Nigeria Plc, was contracted for the Asphalt Resurfacing of the said Port Harcourt Airport Runway. Beyond that, the project was concluded within 7 months of our Client’s occupation of the office as Minister of Aviation, and the completion exercise was commissioned by Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke.

All these pieces of information are in the public domain and overtly to your knowledge. For malicious and malevolent reasons, you however elected to misrepresent our Client in the public glare, by deliberating infusing false, dishonest and untrue comments about him into the minds of right thinking members of the society. More worrisome is the fact that you were conscious of this falsehood, in consequence of which you systematically and intentionally failed to admit yourself to caution, but resolved to pollute the media stream for an unsuspecting person to drink of this fabrication, which was actuated by bad faith, reprisal and dishonourable intentions.

Without mincing words, you have disparaged our Client by your remarks, in the eyes of right-thinking members of the society; and these remarks have been found to be false and slanderous of him. Our brief is to intimate you of this grievances character breach on the person of our Client and his hard earned reputation. Our Client has not only suffered the loss of good will but has now been subjected to opprobrium by his fans, followers and business associates.


Being conscious of his rights, both in law and equity, our Client is minded to afford you an opportunity to undo the evil you have done, by retracting the said insalubrious remarks on the same Channels TV and apologising to him, both on Channels TV and two other National Dailies. You are also advised to enter into negotiations with us for the sum of Five Billion Naira, being a token amount for penitence, as opposed to the magnitude of infraction caused to our Client’s nobility.

It is imperative to bear in mind that you have 14 years from receipt of this letter to comply with the highlighted mitigating measures, the failure of which will leave our Client with no preferred alternative than to seek redress in Court, the said redress which shall also include a claim that you are unfit to continue to hold the office of Minister of Transportation, because your defamatory and slanderous remarks were borne out of an inept appreciation of basic workings and operations of the Aviation Sector, Accept our professional regards.

Yours faithfully,

Wale Balogun, Esq.

http://politicsngr.com/2017/05/02/femo-fani-kayode-threatens-sue-amaechi-demands-n5-billion-damages/

lol

sue me I sue you

they are both guilty of embezzlement. na person wey embezzle pass we nor know.



btw, nigerian politicians and their flowery use of english. na the grammar wey layman nor understand dem go dey use dey communicate, sheee na communication be that?

e DoN set,somebody must beg

Two criminals suing each others and later some daft head will be defending them........

Where is Patrick Obragbon let him come and see his people with grammars.


Both parties are political looters, former and present looters.

E be like say na 5 billion damages de on point now,Dino how fa ala hausa soure don pay you

#2billion for Asphalt resurfacing of runway? ..FFK is a criminal.

Igbos are fools.

Mama piss had better warn FFK not pick a fight with the lion of ubima. FFK wants to raise #5billion for Nnamdi kanu's Anus operation. Boko boys really torment that Anus. E be like Igbos will cry with FFK.

Igbos always cry

Dinta aghola anu ohia.

ROTIMI: OVER TO U.... U SEF NA LAWYER