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Kayode Fayemi drags Fayose’s spokesman to court for libel.

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Kayode Fayemi, minister of solid minerals development, has taken Lere Olayinka, spokesman of Ayodele Fayose, to court over “libellous” statements made against him.

Fayemi also sued Samuel Omotoso, a member of Ekiti state house of assembly.

On July 6, 2016, the duo during a live television programme allegedly said Fayemi took N1.5 billion from Ekiti treasury and gave it to Muhammadu Buhari, the then presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Olayinka also alleged that Fayemi spent the state’s funds to build a private university for his benefit in Ghana.

However, in a suit marked 6/577/2016 and filed at a high court in Abuja, Fayemi sought N3 billion in damages.

The former Ekiti governor also wants a retraction of the statements, a public apology to be published and aired on Ekiti state television and Channels television.

Fayemi said the comments of the duo exposed him to “public ridicule, odium, opprobrium, embarrassment and unprecedented disrepute”.

He described it as “incalculable and tremendous injury” to his image and personality as an “international figure”.

The minister prayed the court for an injunction restraining the defendants from making such kind of statements against him.

A date is yet to be fixed for hearing of the case.

“Professor Soyinka’s Nobel Prize was rigged” – Fayose’s aide, Lere Olayinka claims

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Lere Olayinka, Media aide to Ekiti State governor Ayo Fayose, has said Professor Wole Soyinka’s Nobel Prize was rigged. Olayinka has been a rabid critic of the playwright and Africa’s first winner of the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature ever since Soyinka grudgingly supported Muhammadu Buhari, over Goodluck Jonathan, in the 2015 presidential election which Buhari won.

 

Olayinka unleashed a twitter rant on Tuesday, alluding to Professor Soyinka’s recent outburst against Nigerians who criticized him for not ripping his American Green Card into shreds as soon as Donald Trump was elected the United States president last month. Soyinka, in protest for Trump’s campaign that was centred on racism and insults for all manner of groups, had vowed to leave America for good if the citizens made the mistake of electing Donald Trump. While he made the threat, most opinion polls showed Donald Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton, leading and was going to win.

 

Soyinka was later subjected to mockery by majority of Trump’s supporters in Nigeria. And few days after he wrote a scathing essay pushing back against their harassment on Social Media, he confirmed to an AFP journalist in South Africa that he had made good his promise by tossing the Green Card away. Then, few days after, he described as an embarrassment the idea that he shares same country with the ‘imbeciles and morons’ who keep harassing him.

 

Olayinka reacted on Twitter by insinuating that Soyinka’s Prize was a rigged one. His tweet:

 

 

 

Earlier, he had also hinted at his disgust for Soyinka’s endorsement of Buhari during the presidential election. He tweeted;