Glamsquad reports that Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, Awujale of Ijebuland, has sued Yinka Ayefele, owner of internet fresh FM 105.9 radio station, in Oyo State High Court for alleged defamation.
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He is seeking N200 billion in damages and compensation for defamation in the radio program.
The claimant stated that on December 22, 2019, during the radio station program titled “Talk your own with Chikito Duru,” the defendant stored on his news server and published or caused his internet website, which has the address www.facebook.comfreshfmibadanvideos, from December 22, 2019 to September 4, 2020.
Ayanlaja Adesanya, the claimant’s counsel, stated in a statement of claim that the said words referred to and were understood to refer to the claimant in their natural and ordinary meaning and are calculated to disparage the claimant in his status as the Awujale and paramount ruler of Ijebuland.
“The claimant’s credit, character, and reputation have also been harmed, and he has been lowered in the estimation of right-thinking members of society in general, as well as hurt in his feelings.”
“The defendant published the said words concerning the claimant out of malice or spite in order to promote the defendant’s business in order to increase profit in terms of financial income and gain,” he claimed.
The claimant insisted that the defendant was aware that the said words were defamatory and untrue since it was alleged to have occurred in 1984, adding that the defendant was reckless in checking whether or not the publication was true, but was blinded by the prospect of material gain from using the claimant’s person and office to attract more listeners to its programs.
In paragraph 11 of the monarch’s witness statement, he recalled receiving phone calls from some of his subjects in Nigeria and the Diaspora regarding a trending internet radio program stored on the defendant’s website from January to September 2020.