{"id":28323,"date":"2020-08-05T18:56:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T18:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=28323"},"modified":"2020-08-05T18:56:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T18:56:02","slug":"wike-sues-thisday-newspapers-for-n7-billion-over-publication-against-obaseki-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/wike-sues-thisday-newspapers-for-n7-billion-over-publication-against-obaseki-pdp","title":{"rendered":"Wike sues Thisday Newspapers for N7 Billion over Publication against Obaseki, PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>In the publication captioned, \u201cWith Wike, Obaseki Meets His PDP\u2019S Waterloo, Almost,\u201d the Defendants maliciously and falsely portrayed the Claimant as an unreliable friend\/person.<\/p>\n<p>The suit filed at the Port Harcourt High Court by Governor Wike\u2019s Counsel, Emmanuel C.Ukala, Esq, S.A.N, FCIArb, the Defendants further portrayed Governor Wike as a selfish politician and a person who meddled in and exerts subterranean influence in judicial matters in courts sitting in Port Harcourt to achieve selfish political interest and that he is not a true democrat.<\/p>\n<p>He is therefore seeking an order of mandatory injunction compelling the Defendants to withdraw, retract and recant the said libellous publication.<\/p>\n<p>The retraction is to be published at the front page(and to devote the whole full front page to the publication of the retraction).<\/p>\n<p>ThisDay Newspaper is also to publish an apology in the terms acceptable to the Claimant and with his prior approval at the back page( on the full back page) in the same edition on which the retraction is published, and two consecutive editions of ThisDay Newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>The Claimant is also seeking an order of injunction restraining the Defendants by themselves or by their servants, agents, privies and associates from further publishing the said libel or any manner however and whatsoever continuing to circulate the said libellous publication concerning the Claimant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: In the publication captioned, \u201cWith Wike, Obaseki Meets His PDP\u2019S Waterloo, Almost,\u201d the Defendants maliciously and falsely portrayed the Claimant as an unreliable friend\/person. The suit filed at the Port Harcourt High Court by Governor Wike\u2019s Counsel, Emmanuel C.Ukala, Esq, S.A.N, FCIArb, the Defendants further portrayed Governor Wike as a selfish politician and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":9872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1152,697],"class_list":["post-28323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-governor-wike","tag-obaseki"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wike sues Thisday Newspapers for N7 Billion over Publication against Obaseki, PDP - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/wike-sues-thisday-newspapers-for-n7-billion-over-publication-against-obaseki-pdp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wike sues Thisday Newspapers for N7 Billion over Publication against Obaseki, PDP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria: In the publication captioned, \u201cWith Wike, Obaseki Meets His PDP\u2019S Waterloo, Almost,\u201d the Defendants maliciously and falsely portrayed the Claimant as an unreliable friend\/person. 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