
The Digest:
Billionaire businessman Femi Otedola filed a ₦1 billion libel suit against Umar Sani, a former media aide to ex-VP Sambo, for linking him to subsidy fraud. Simultaneously, Otedola urged President Tinubu to release the full Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede probe report.
Key Points:
- Femi Otedola has filed a ₦1 billion libel suit against Umar Sani, a former aide to Vice President Namadi Sambo.
- He dismissed Sani's publication linking him to fuel subsidy fraud as "false and baseless."
- Otedola clarified his company, Zenon, only imported diesel, which was deregulated and not eligible for subsidy.
- He stated he was the whistleblower who first alerted President Goodluck Jonathan to the subsidy fraud.
- Regarding the Farouk Lawan scandal, he maintained it was a sanctioned SSS sting operation.
- Otedola called on President Bola Tinubu to release the full Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede subsidy probe report.
- He defended his AMCON debt settlement as a transparent, court-supervised process.
Sources: PREMIUM TIMES