Court Adjourns Sine Die On Awujale’s N200bn Libel Suit Against Ayefele’s 105.9 FM Radio Station
As the hearing in the N200 billion libel suit filed by the Awujale and Paramount ruler of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona, against Yinka Ayefele Limited, owner of Internet Fresh FM 105.9 Radio Station commenced, Justice Olusola Adetujoye of an Oyo State High Court, sitting in Ibadan has adjourned sine die when counsels to both parties could not agree on a date.
In his 11-paragraph statement of claim, Oba Adetona is seeking N200b as compensation for damages for the alleged libel contained in a radio programme titled, “Talk Your Own with Chikito Duru” allegedly written and published by the defendant on its Fresh FM 105.9 Ibadan on December 22, 2019.
It was said to be simultaneously transmitted and stored in its news server from December 22, 2019 daily till September 4, 2020 vide internet website with address www.facebook.comfreshfmibadanvideos on behalf of the defendant.
The monarch is also seeking an order of injunction restraining the defendant by itself, servants, agents or otherwise from further publishing or causing to be published the same or similar defamatory words of or concerning the claimant and cost of the suit.
Yinka Aiyefele Limited is the sole defendant in the suit marked I/972/2020 filed by the Awujale through his counsel, O. Ayanlaja, SAN of M/S Ayanlaja, Adesanya & Co.
Ayanlaja said the words used on the radio programme referred and were understood to refer to the claimant in their natural and ordinary meaning and were calculated to disparage the claimant in his status as a person of global repute and in his office as the Awujale and paramount ruler of Ijebuland.
