A Federal High Court has ordered former President Olusegun Obasanjo to pay N4 million in damages to The Punch Newspapers and its columnist, Sonala Olumhense, over a defamation suit.
The trial Judge, Justice Modupe Osho-Adebiyi, in her ruling, held that N2 million to both defendants was the cost of the action.
Obasanjo had filed a defamation suit demanding the sum of N1 billion in damages against the newspaper in 2019 following an article questioning his account of Nigerian history.
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According to the copy of the ruling made available to the judicial correspondents in Abuja on Friday, the award followed the application by Obasanjo’s counsel, Emmanuel Bisong Otinyia Esq, for the discontinuance of the matter and for it to be struck out.
Both counsel have sought a cost of N3m only each, but I hereby award the sum of N2m only each to the 1st and 2nd defendants as cost of this action,” the judge ruled.
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