An Abuja
High Court sitting in Wuse Zone 2, has restrained former President Olusegun
Obasanjo from proceeding with plans to publish or have someone publish on his
behalf, a new autobiography entitled ‘My Watch.”
Justice
Valentine Ashi made the order following an ex-parte application filed
before him by a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the
South-West, Mr. Buruji Kashamu.
The court
granted the motion marked FCT/HC/M/2392/2014, on Friday, after it listened to
Kashamu’s lawyer, Dr. Alex Iziyon, SAN.
Iziyon
had argued that the content of the book relates to issues contained in the
letter Obasanjo wrote to President Goodluck Jonathan and former National
Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, on December 2, 2013, where he
alleged that Kashamu was a fugitive wanted in the United States of America.
He
contended that since the content of the letter is the subject matter of the libel
suit his client filed against Obasanjo, which is still pending before the high
court, it would be wrong for the ex-president to be allowed to proceed to
comment on, write books about or make publications on the issue yet to be
decided by the court.
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