Diezani, who was minister during the regime of former President Goodluck Jonathan, is demanding N100billion to be paid to her as damages for the false, injurious, malicious and libelous publications against her.
In the writ of summons dated May 26, 2023, filed on her behalf at the Federal High Court, Abuja, by her lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN), the former minister, urged the defendants to jointly and severally pay her (the Claimant), the sum of N100,000,000,000.00 (N100bn) only, as damages for the false, injurious, malicious and libelous publications against the Claimant in the 1st Defendant’s publishing platform, and at the instance of both the 1st and the 2nd Defendants.
She also wants the court to direct the EFCC and AGF to apologise to her in three national dailies over the alleged false, injurious, malicious and libelous publications against her since she left Nigeria in 2015.
According to Diezani, the EFCC’s publications were designed to lower her reputation and integrity in the opinion of right-thinking members of the society within and outside Nigeria.
The defendants were given 14 days from the service of the summons to enter their defence.