The Oyo State Governor, Senator
Abiola Ajimobi, has sued the
Independent Communications
Network Limited, publishers of
PM News for the sum of N1
billion.
This was disclosed in a release
issued by Festus Adedayo, the
governor’s Special Adviser on
Media.
The evening newspaper had on
Tuesday published a piece
entitled ‘Anxiety over Florence
Ajimobi’s alleged arrest in UK’ ,
wherein it published a story
purportedly written by an online
agency named Newsleak, which
alleged that the wife of the
governor had been arrested in
London for money laundering.
According to the release, the
government of Oyo State had
the responsibility to ensure
that the media does not
become an instrument in the
hands of blackmailers for such
acts.
“We want to state unequivocally
that this report is not only
wicked, it is the figment of the
imagination of the writers. Mrs.
Ajimobi was never arrested for
any offence whatsoever. Even
though our investigations have
shown that this is the work of
some arrowheads of the
opposition, it was done in such
an amateurish way that beats
the imagination of any
responsible reader,” the release
said.
The government said that
though it had a lot of respect for
the media, there was the need
to drag the runners of these
media to court to explain the
details of their reports to the
rest of the world.
The government decried what it
called dirty politicking by the
opposition in the state who use
the media for the propagation
of their falsehood, stating that
the courts would be able to
compel those behind this
wicked lie to provide details of
the veracity or otherwise of their
claims on the governor’s wife.
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