Chief of Staff Femi Gbajabiamila has filed a ₦15 billion defamation suit against Adeniyi Adeyemi, the self-styled director-general of the disputed Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, over allegations he demanded a 48% kickback from a ₦27.3 billion federal grant.
Filed Wednesday at the FCT High Court in Abuja by Kemi Pinheiro, SAN, the suit seeks ₦10 billion in general damages, ₦5 billion in aggravated damages, and ₦200 million in costs, plus a court-ordered retraction published in five national newspapers and across social media for 30 days.
Gbajabiamila’s filing denies ever meeting Adeyemi, receiving money through a proxy, or influencing any investigation against him. It notes that Adeyemi later admitted, in an interview with social media personality VeryDarkMan, that he’d never actually met or video-called the Chief of Staff, communicating only through an intermediary, Babatunde Tanimola, who has since died in a hotel fire.
The suit follows a July 6 cease-and-desist letter that went unanswered. Adeyemi, who separately faces forgery charges, was arrested Tuesday by police in Osun State after months of evading arraignment.
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