Ilorin amusement park: Mrs Saraki demands apology from Kwara govt, APC, others

Date: 2019-08-19

The wife of a former Senate President, Mrs Toyin Saraki, has given Kwara State Government, Kwara state chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) and others 24 hours to retract publication on her ownership of Ilorin Amusement Park and apologise for defaming her person.

This was contained in a letter issued by the lawyers acting for Mrs Saraki, to Kwara State Government, the state Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and one Titi Anifowoshe, a personal aide to Minister-nominee, Senator Gbemisola Rukayat Saraki-Fowora, warning them to retract a defamatory story they sponsored on social media against the former First Lady of the state on the ownership of the Ilorin amusement park.

In a letter addressed to the Kwara State APC Chairman, Bashiru Bolarinwa and the others, the law firm of Austen-Peters & Co demanded that the state government, the ruling party and the aide of the minister-designate should publish a retraction within 24 hours.

"Our client finds the entirety of the publication mendacious, libellous and criminally defamatory. "She believes that the peddling of malicious falsehood in the said publication was done deliberately and maliciously in a bid to bring her to disrepute before right-thinking members of the public, especially because there is no iota of truth in the publication. "First, Our Client has never at any time, owned, nor sought to own any portion or the whole, of the Ilorin Metropark, formerly known as Ilorin Amusement Park," the letter reads in part.

The firm therefore, demanded that: "An immediate and unequivocal retraction of the publication by APC Kwara State, to disabuse the mind of the public as to whatever misrepresentation the publication might contain. Such rebuttal should enjoy, as a minimum, similar prominence of place as the original publication. "An immediate undertaking that you shall not cause to be published, any form of falsehood against Mrs Saraki.

"An unreserved apology to Mrs Saraki for the publication of malicious falsehood against her person." The letter also explained that the records at the High Court, Ilorin, indicated that the case initiated by the Ilorin Emirates Descendants Progressives Union in 2013, which named Mrs Saraki as 7th Defendant along with the purported sellers and purchasers of the Ilorin Amusement Park, a claim which the Kwara State Government had, in 2013 denied, since been discontinued on 7th May 2019, at the request of the claimants. The court had also struck it out.

Related

Ancestral Land: Ilorin Elders Raise Fresh Posers for Kwara Govt

Saraki Denies Wife's Involvement in Sale of Ilorin Amusement Park

Kwara Govt Exonerates Toyin Saraki from Lease of Amusement Park

Alleged Sale of Ancestral Lands: Ilorin Senior Citizens Drag KWSG to Court

Ancestral Land: Only court can exonerate your wife, Ilorin elders reply Saraki

Group Urges Peace in Saraki, Elders' Land Dispute

Groups, NLC Chief Urge Caution over Kwara Land, Offa-Erin-Ile Crises

Alleged Sale of Ancestral Lands: Ilorin Senior Citizens Drag KWSG to Court

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

AbdulFatai Adeniyi Dan-Kazeem     Isiaka Danmeromu     Abdulazeez Uthman     IQRA College     IYA YUSUF     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Tunji Ajanaku     Iyabo Adisa Ibiyeye     Kwara State Geographic Information Service     Emmanuel Bello     Balogun Fulani     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Yusuf AbdulRasheed     Kehinde Boyede     Bolaji Abdullahi     Arinola Lawal     Abdulmutalib Shittu     Y.A. Abdulkareem     Unicontinental Construction Company     Ilorin East     Ilorin Durbar     Ojo Fadumila     CUTI     Sobi FM     Academic Staff Union Of Universities     Millennium Development Goals     Pakata Patriots     Saka Asiat Ayinke     Col. Ibrahim Taiwo     Fatimah Abdulkadir     KWACOBPA     Alabere     Salihu S. Yaru     Femi Gbajabiamila     Bamikole Omishore     Danladi     Imodoye Writer’s Enclave     Alanamu     Prince Mahe Abdulkadir     Doyin Awoyale     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Muhammad-Mustapha Suleiman     Aliyu U. Tilde     Abdullah Janet Amudat     Alabi Olayemi Abdulrazak     Overland     Christian Association Of Nigeria     Aliyu Alhassan     Abdullahi Biffo     Taofeeq Olateju     Balikis Jawondo     Kanu Agabi     Issa Oloruntogun     Lai Gobir     Muhammed Abdullahi     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport     Eghe Igbinehin     Kpotum Mohammed Baba     QuickWin     HICA     Oyun     Idris Amosa Saidu     Ishola Balogun Fulani     Egbewole     Goodluck Jonathan     Transition Implementation Committee     Alabi Lawal     Oba Abdulraheem     Mohammed Abdulahi     Abdulmajeed Wahab     FOMWAN     Roheemat Hammed     Igbaja     Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     Arik     Kwara Liberation Group     Metro Park    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Centre For Community Empowerment And Poverty Eradication     Tunde Yusuf     JMK Construction Company Limited     NIPR     Isau     Akanbi-Oke     Frootify     Abdulmalik Bashir Mopelola Risikatullahi     Abubakar Olusola Saraki     Kisra     Seni Saraki     Sulyman Buhari     Abubakar Atiku     Moses Afolayan     Mohammed Abduraheem     Lotus Bank     Bolakale Saka     CCB     Pacify Labs     Hassan Abdulazeez Elewu     Kabir Shagaya     PharmAccess Foundation     Jaiz Bank     Bayer Nigeria Limited     Sulyman Age AbdulKareem     Raliat Islamic Foundation     Orisun Igbomina     Ita-Ore     Bolaji Nagode     Ayobami Akanbi     Abdullahi Atanda     Dumagi     Baboko     Salihu S. Yaru     Olabode Towoju     Yusuf AbdulRasheed     Maimunat Oniyangi     Ibrahim Abikan     Agbarigidoma     Lasiele Alabi Yahaya     Amosa     Iyaloja-General     Peter Obi     Mustapha Olanipekun     Doyin Group     Air Peace     Bibire Ajape     African Democratic Congress     Esinrogunjo     Kwarareports     Igbomina     Obayomi Azeez     Olaitan Adefila     Bashir Adigun     Hamza Usman     Kola Bukoye     Nigerian Correctional Service     Iyeru Grammar School     Balogun-Ojomu     Ayegbeni     Kupchi Hosea Maxwell     Salake     Bilikisu Gambari     Muritala Awodun     Opobiyi     Kwara-SAPZ Project     Ishola Abdullahi     Kwara State Branch Of The National Library     Hassan Oyeleke     Saliu Tunde Bello     IHS     Local Government     Maigida Soludero Transit     Elections     Isiaka AbdulRazaq     Gbenga Adebayo     Ahmed Saidu Rufai