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Court throws out elrufai’s N2bn defamation suit against ShehuSani | TheCable

In the suit filed in 2018, the former governorhim by referring to him as a “drunk, loose cannon and an embarrassment to President Muhammadu Buhari”.

El-Rufai claimed that Sani’s statements are totally false and injurious to his person in the eyes of the public.Giving his verdict on Thursday, H.A.L Balogun, the presiding judge, said the suit is an abuse of court processes.When hearing in the case began, Kimi Livingstone Appah, counsel to Sani, had drawn the attention of the court to the fact that the former governor filed the same case in four different courts in the state.

 

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