The Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the last Edo governorship election, Asue Ighodalo, has sued the Acting Chairman of the All-Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State, Jarret Tenebe, for N500million, over alleged defamation.
In the writ of summons marked LD/ADR/5731/2025 at the High Court of Lagos, Ighodalo also sought a declaration that all the statements made by the defendant in the defamatory video published and circulated online on December 10, 2024, amount to defamation.
The plaintiff prayed the court to order Tenebe to issue a letter of apology to him within seven days of the judgment.
Ighodalo sought a declaration that the statements made by Tenebe in an interview with TMC TV/Radio on December 17, 2024, to the effect that the claimant (Ighodalo) is a thief, amount to defamation.
He prayed for an order directing the defendant to withdraw the defamatory statements by publishing a retraction on all platforms where the defamatory statements were published.
Ighodalo, former chairman of Sterling Bank PLC, Dangote Flour Mills plc and Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG), said through his lawyers that “the primary objective of procuring the publication of the defamatory video was to tarnish his reputation.”
