FFK, the Drug Addled Thug in Designer Wears<\/a>\u2019 dated August 30, 2020 and published by the medium.<\/p>\nIn the article, which was published in the newspaper, the writer lambasted Fani-Kayode for his conduct during a Press conference in which he described a Daily Trust reporter in Calabar, Eyo Charles, as \u2018stupid\u2019 after the journalist asked question about the identity of persons \u201cbankrolling\u201d his current tour of southern states.<\/p>\n
Gadu, the writer of the article, claimed that Fani-Kayode, who attended Cambridge University, was once \u201ca drug addict\u201d and had sought rehabilitation in Ghana, but \u201ctill today has not been cured of the habit.\u201d<\/p>\n
In his pre-litigation letter, however, Fani-Kayode described the article as libelous and demanded an apology from the newspaper, which must be published in other national dailies.<\/p>\n
The former minister also demanded that negotiation be entered into for possible payment of N6bn due to the irreparable loss the article had caused him.<\/p>\n
It reads in part, \u201cBe aware that our client has not only suffered immeasurable loss of goodwill, he is currently confronted with unbearable opprobrium by his fans, followers and colleagues across the globe.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur client is alive to his rights both in law and equity but is disposed to an opportunity to undo the evil you have done by retracting the said insalubrious remarks on the same platform it was published and apologising to him in two other national dailies.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou are also advised to enter into negotiations with us for the sum of N6bn being a token amount for penitence as opposed to the magnitude of infraction caused to our client\u2019s nobility.\u201d<\/p>\n
The newspaper was given 14 days to comply or face legal action.<\/p>\n
Fani-Kayode also wrote a similar letter to Gadu, who authored the article.<\/p>\n
The former minister drew the ire of several Nigerians recently after a viral video showed him talking down at a journalist, an incident he has apologised for.<\/p>\n
However, the Nigeria Union of Journalists, as well as many other civil organisations, have continued to criticise Fani-Kayode, while many reporters have boycotted his ongoing tour of the southern states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fani-Kayode demands N6bn, apology from Daily Trust A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has demanded that the management of Media Trust Limited \u2013 publishers of Daily Trust and other publications \u2013 enter into a negotiation with him for possible settlement of N6bn for defamation of character. Fani-Kayode said this in a letter addressed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[262,259,261,260],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/FFk.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pci3ty-97","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}