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Daily Nigerian, a Nigerian-based online news medium, and its publisher, Jaafar Jaafar, have requested the Kano State High Court to compel Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, to pay N400 million as compensation for wasting their time and attempting to discredit their reputation.
Ganduje, who took both defendants to court, claiming damages for defamation, on Tuesday applied to discontinue the suit without giving any reason.
It will be recalled that Daily Nigerian had released a video showing the governor supposedly taking briber from a contractor and stuffing the money into his pocket.
Counsel to Daily Nigeria, Muhammad Dan’Azumi, told the court that the governor had wasted his client’s precious time and had attempted to damage its reputation by claiming that it published defamatory items. He asked for N300 million in damages.
In the same vein, counsel to Jaafar, U. U. Eteng, asked for 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.
Justice S. B. Namalam has granted Ganduje’s discontinuance application, and ordered him to pay cost in the sum of N400,000 each to the two defendants.
