Babatunde Fashola, former minister of works and housing, has petitioned the inspector-general of police over “defamatory” social media posts.
The posts claim that he is drafting a favourable judgment for the presidential election petition tribunal.
Recently, Jackson Ude and some Twitter users alleged that Fashola and some lawyers of the All Progressives Congress (APC) were writing the judgment which would be handed to the judges.
Reacting to the claim, the former minister described the allegation as “baseless and defamatory”.
He added that those responsible for the posts are “agents of destabilisation”.
In a petition addressed to the IGP and written by Olanrewaju Akinsola, his counsel, Fashola said the allegation was peddled by Ude, Yoruba Sheikh, and Reportera.NG, using the microblogging platform, Twitter.
The former Lagos governor said the claim has “excessively breached the decent fundamentals of public enlightenment”, adding that the allegation amounts to “character assassination”.
“It is the position of our client that the publications by the said Jackson Ude, @yorubasheik, and @ReporteraNew are false in their entirety and have excessively breached the decent fundamentals of public enlightenment that freedom of the press is constitutionally about,” the petition reads.
