From: Ahmad SAKA, Bauchi
A legal Practitioner Barrister Peter A. Aki has petitioned the Inspector General of Police, over “malicious libel and criminal defamation” against Vice President Kashim Shettima and the Managing Director North East Development Commission NEDC Goni Mohammed Alkali to ignite Political instability.
The petition dated June 4th 2025, which was received by the IGPs office on 10th June 2024 was signed by the counsel and representatives of concerned citizens group that represented the six States in the region.
The signatories included the lawyer Barrister Peter A. Aki, representatives of North east citizens from each state among them Barrister Atiku Isma'ila Gombe state, Alhaji Lawan Abdullahi Bauchi State, Mallam Murtala S. Danejo Taraba State, Aliyu Mohammed Yobe State, Engr. Awwal Hayatu Wakili Adamawa State and Abubakar Hussaini Borno State, alleged that such libelous publications are capable of leading to break down of law and order.
The petitioners claimed that, "the publications on various national dailies were false and was with a view to disparage the Vice President and the managing director in the eyes of right thinking persons, contrary to Nigerian Criminal and Penal code Laws and a gross violation of their Right to Dignity of Human Person as guaranteed under the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (As amended).”
"We hereby humbly request that you use your good office to investigate this petition and take necessary actions as conferred on you and your office by law.”
The Petition which copies was distributed to newsmen in Bauchi tittle " PETITION AGAINST SOME MALICIOUS LIBELOUS PUBLICATION BY ONE PASTOR DR. SANI ABDULLAHI AND REVEREND KALLAMU MUSA ALI DIKWA AGAINST THE PERSON AND OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AND THE MANAGING DIRECTOR OF THE NORTH EAST DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION DESIGNED TO IGNITE POLITICAL INSTABILITY ACROSS THE NATION"
Barrister Aki decried that the incessant publication of libelous information for that "as concerned citizens of the region, our clients' attention has been drawn to some recent malicious libelous publications sponsored by one Pastor Dr. Sani Abdullahi and Reverend Kallamu Musa Ali Dikwa as leaders of an incongruous group parading themselves under a pseudonym as the Coalition of Civil Society Organization against Corruption in Northerner Nigeria (COCSOCINN)."
"As far as our clients have been able to decipher, there is no any registered group or association with this identity neither can they specifically point out as to who and who constitutes m6embers of the group."
They told the IGP that, "if there is anything to go by, it is the said Pastor Dr. Sani Abdullahi and Reverend Kallamu Musa Ali Dikwa working in collaboration with some few professional mischief makers that haye assigned unto themselves the obligation to malign and destroy both the person and office of the Vice president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Senator Kashim Shetima and the Managing Director of the North East Development Commission Alh."
"Mohammed Goni Alkali for reasons best known to them but which our clients have reason to believe are just politically motivated."
They said, "The publication is not only false, malicious, and destructive, it is a deliberate attempt to malign the person of the number two man in the country, expose him and his family to ridicule, and needlessly incite public hatred against his person and his family."
"This false information is criminal defamation that is capable of provoking the numerous supporters of Kashim Shettima in not only Borno, North Eastern State, in particular, and Nigeria as a whole."
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