The Daily Nigerian publisher, Jaafar Jaafar, on Tuesday, asked the Kano State High Court to order the state governor, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, to pay him and his online outfit N400m, as compensation for wasting their time and for attempting to tarnish his reputation.
Ganduje, who took both defendants to court, claiming damages for defamation on Tuesday applied to discontinue the litigation without stating any cogent reason.
Recall that Daily Nigerian had circulated a video, showing the governor purportedly taking bribe from a contractor and stuffing the money handed to him into his pocket.
However, counsel for Daily Nigerian, Muhammad Dan’Azumi, told the court that the governor had wasted his client’s precious time and had attempted to damage his reputation by claiming that it published defamatory items and demanded for damages.
In the same vein, counsel for Jaafar, U. U. Eteng, asked for N100n and demanded that the governor apologised.
Justice S. B. Namalam granted Ganduje’s discontinuance application and ordered him to pay cost in the sum of N400,000 each to the two defendants.