Osinbajo says he’s ready to waive his constitutional immunity for a thorough investigation of the claims against him.
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Osinbajo made this known on Wednesday in a tweet.
I will waive my constitutional immunity to enable the most robust adjudication of these claims of libel and malicious falsehood.
~YO— Prof Yemi Osinbajo (@ProfOsinbajo) September 25, 2019
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has announced the commencement of legal action against Timi Frank and Katch Ononuju for libel and malicious falsehood.
The vice president made this announcement on Wednesday, September 25, 2019, accusing the duo of sponsoring falsehood against him.
Frank, a former chieftain of Osinbajo’s All Progressives Congress (APC), accused the vice president of collecting N90 billion from the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) to fund the 2019 presidential election.
In the past few days, a spate of reckless and malicious falsehoods have been peddled in the media against me by a group of malicious individuals.
The defamatory and misleading assertions invented by this clique have been making the social media rounds anonymously.
— Prof Yemi Osinbajo (@ProfOsinbajo) September 25, 2019
The FIRS has dismissed Frank’s allegations as a calculated attempt to smear its image and that of the vice president.
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