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Court Lifts Ban On Obasanjo’s ‘My Watch’

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by Deji Abiodun

A judge of a high court in the federal capital territory,Valentine Ashi, has ordered the Nigerian customs service to release ‘My Watch’, the autobiography of former president Olusegun Obasanjo banned in December 2014.

Buruji Kashamu, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had obtained an injunction restraining Obasanjo from releasing the book, saying the subject of the book was libelous to his person.

Kashamu also instituted a N20 billion libel case against Obasanjo for referring to him as a drug baron in an open letter to President Goodluck Jonathan in December 2013.

But Obasanjo ignored the court order and launched the book at the Lagos Country Club Ikeja on December 9. Consequently, Ashi directed the confiscation of the book and also gave Obasanjo a 21-day ultimatum to explain why he should not be punished for flouting the court’s order.

But following an application by Kanu Agabi, former attorney-general of the federation and counsel to Obasanjo, Ashi set aside the injunction.

Agabi had sought the vacation of the orders, arguing that the court wrongly applied the law in reaching its decision.

He said the court ought to have established whether or not the publication complained about was libelous before restraining Obasnajo from engaging in further publication.

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