Governor of Zamfara state Abdul’aziz Abubakar Yari, has denied the recent publication of him dating President Muhammadu Buhari’s 21 year-old daughter. The report also claimed that the governor gifted Zahra a whopping $200 million.
Threaten to sue the publishers of City People and The Polity – N10 billion and N100 billion respectively if they do not retract the publications and print apologies within seven days. Prompt News Online reports that the Governor, via his lawyer, Mahmud Magaji, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, has vehemently denied the reports, and sent letters to both publications this week, threatening to sue them if they do not clear Yari’s name.
[quote_box_center]“Since the above publication, our client has received countless phone calls and text messages from family, friends, colleagues and associates, who incessantly call to enquire about the said publication.[/quote_box_center]
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″]“The above publication, no doubt, is false and defamatory, and it is intended to bring the reputation of our client to ridicule and cause odium or malignity to our client.[/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″]“Consequent upon the above, it is our client’s instruction that we demand from you published retraction of the said defamatory piece in three national newspapers inclusive of your own – City People, The Polity.”[/vc_column][/vc_row]