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An Abuja High Court has restrained a former president, Chief Olusegun
Obasanjo, from publishing or having someone publish on his behalf, a
new autobiography titled: ‘My Watch’.
Justice Valentine Ashi sitting in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja made the
restraining order last Friday without according the former president a
hearing.
The order was made in favour of a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP), Buruji Kashamu. The application was argued ex-parte by
Kashamu's lawyer, Dr Alex Izinyon, SAN.
Iziyon had argued that the content of the book related to issues
contained in Obasanjo’s December 2, 2013, letter to President Goodluck
Jonathan and former PDP National Chairman, Bamanga Tukur, where he
(Obasanjo) claimed that Kashamu was allegedly a fugitive, wanted in the
United States.
He contended that since the content of the letter was the subject of
the libel suit his client filed against Obsanjo, which is still pending
before the court, it was 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.
Justice Ashi, in a ruling, restrained Obasanjo from either publishing
the book or have it published on his behalf by anybody, pending the
determination of the main suit still pending before the court.
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