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Prof. Zainab Abiola, the wife of the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, the late Chief MKO Abiola, has dragged the Nigeria Police Force, Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali to a Federal High Court in Abuja for alleged defamation.
Joined as respondents were Ibrahim Alkali (son of the IGP) and former police Orderly, Teju Moses.
Abiola in the suit with reference No FHA/ABJ/CS/2370/202 filed by her lawyer, Tawo Tawo (SAN), is challenging the police for violating her fundamental human rights to life, and dignity of the human person.
The plaintiff in her statement of claim obtained by journalists on Sunday, averred that she was framed on September 20, 2022, by one Ibrahim Alkali, the adopted son of the IGP, that she inflicted injury on her former orderly, Inspector Moses, a development she said has caused so much damage to her name and reputation.
Abiola said that as a Chief Legal Consultant of the force, Alkali’s son had sometime in 2021 requested for a bribe of N20 million from her under the guise of greasing the palms of top officers to expand her office.
She said, her refusal to offer the N20 million bribe infuriated Ibrahim and he had been nursing evil plans and grudges against her adding that Ibrahim in his desperate bid to achieve his plans insisted that Moses remained her orderly even after she was declared unfit and withdrawn by the IGP.
“He conspired with my ex-orderly to lie that I inflicted bodily harm on her. We have CCTV camera’s around that will reveal what happened when the proceedings commenced,” she said…
