Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, has, through his lawyers, asked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to apologize to him over its allegation that he is illegally trading in foreign exchange, or face them in court soon.
The Presidential spokesman, through Cherish Solicitors, wrote to the national PDP chairman, Ali Modu Sheriff, asking him to write a letter of apology and a retraction of the publication within 72 hours of the receipt of the letter.
“We shall be left with no option than to have recourse to our client’s rights under the law. We condemn your defamatory and libellous actions in the strongest terms and we state that this is least expected from an organization of your standing which produced past and present crops of leaders, expected to be role model in the country.”
The letter was, signed by Aliyu Abdullahi.
The PDP, through its twitter handle @PDPNigeria, had accused Garba Shehu of buying USD800, 000 from the Central Bank of Nigeria at official rate, and selling it off the same day at black market rate.
The Presidential spokesman quickly denied the allegation and said: “the day I choose to start trading in FOREX I will resign as a presidential spokesman.”
He then threatened legal action if he knew the “coward and psychopath” behind the @PDPNigeria handle. [myad]
