A Kano State High Court has on Tuesday ordered Kano state governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, to pay the sum of N800,000 to the Publisher of Daily Nigerian, an online platform and its publisher, Ja’afar Ja’afar for expenses incurred in the court case of the controversial dollar bribery video.
Recall that the Publisher, Ja’afar Ja’afar, had released video clips of the Governor allegedly stuffing US dollars into his pocket.
Governor Ganduje sued Ja’afar Ja’afar and for defamation of character, seeking the sum of N3bn as damages.
The Kano Governor afterwards filed an application through his counsel, Offiong Offiong dated 28th June, 2021 seeking to discontinue the court case.
At the Tuesday’s court sitting, the defendant counsel, U. Eteng (Counsel to Ja’afar Ja’afar) and M. B. Azumi (Counsel to Penlight Media Limited) did not object to the application to discontinue the case but demanded the sum of N400 million as part of terms to discontinue the suit.
While Azumi asked for N300 million for damages (wasting their precious time and puting the reputation of his client’s image in jeopardy) while in the same vein, counsel for Jaafar, U. U. Eteng, demanded N100 million naira.
They also demanded that the governor apologises to them in any widely circulated national daily in Nigeria.
They equally requested that the court orders Ganduje to furnish them with preaction notice prior to taking any further action on the same matter.
