15:16 16/06/2015
Lagos - Senator Buruji Kashamu, has withdrawn a N20.1bn libel
suit he instituted against former President Olusegun Obasanjo before a
Federal Capital Territory court in Abuja, Punch reports.
The
presiding judge, Justice Valentine Ashi, struck out the suit on May 26,
2015, following the notice of discontinuance of the suit filed by the
plaintiff.
Kashamu had on February 6, 2014, sued Obasanjo for
“maliciously and recklessly” publishing a letter titled, ‘Before it is
too late,’ addressed to former President Goodluck Jonathan in December
2013.
He
had asked the court to award him N20bn as aggravated and exemplary
damages, and another N100m against Obasanjo for maliciously portraying
him as a fugitive wanted for drug- related offences in the United States
of America.
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