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Lemo Seeks Retraction Of Story On Alleged $500m Refund To FG, Writes Elombah Communications
Former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Tunde Lemo has asked the publishers of an online newspaper to retract its publication accusing him of refunding $500m to the federal government as part of the probe into the tenure of the last CBN governor, Godwin Eemefiele.
Lemo, through his lawyer, Obienu Chinedu of Zest Partners, also advised the company to accede to the request within 24 hours or face legal repercussions.
The letter, titled: Re-Eemefiele refunds 4trn, Lemo $500million $275m &1.5trn found with Buhari’s PA, acopy of which was seen by CITYVOICE.NG reads:
Sir/Madam,
The above subject matter refers.
We are a firm of Legal Practitioners retained by Tunde Lemo who is herein refered to as our client and on whose express instruction we write as follows:
Our Client’s attention has been drawn to the publication made by NEWS.BAND, an online newspaper owned by Elombah Communications on the 21st Day of November 2023 with the above referenced as caption
It is our Client’s express instruction that he did not at any time take any $500,000,000.00 (Five Hundred Million Dollars) from the coffer of Nigerian government warranting any refund.
That he did not refund any $500,000,000.00 (Five Hundred Million Dollars) or any amount to the Federal Government of Nigeria either through the Special Investigator of the Federal Government or any agent of the government or any person by whatever name called.
That the information so published by your newspaper as it relates to our Client is false and untrue
Our client finds the statement defamatory and sees it as a direct attack on his personality to malign him in the eyes of well-meaning Nigerians and his friends outside Nigeria.
Our client herein demands that you retract the said statement making the rounds as it relates to our client within the next 24 hours.
It is our hope that you will heed and accede to our demands and retract the statement through the same medium it was published within the timeframe given. However, should wisdom fail to prevail an you fail to so comply, we will proceed to perfect our client’s instructions.
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