An Abuja High Court today ordered the release of former President Obansanjo’s controversial book ‘My Watch’, which had been in the custody of the Nigerian Customs Service since 2014 following a N20billion libel lawsuit by PDP chieftain, Buruji Kashamu, asking the court to stop the distribution of the book because of some things Obasanjo wrote about him in the book. In the book, Obasanjo described Buruji as a fugitive wanted in the US. A court, last year, ordered security and law enforcement agencies including customs to confiscate the book anywhere they saw the book.
But following Obasanjo’s appeal at the Federal High Court, Abuja, he can now distribute it.
According to a report by Vanguard,
The judge set aside the order of injunction on Monday upon an application by Obasanjo’s lawyer, Chief Kanu Agabi (SAN). In doing so, the court barred the Nigerian Customs Service from collecting demurrage on the books for the period they had been in its custody. The court upheld Agabi’s argument that the applicant, a Peoples Democratic Party chief in Ogun State, Buruji Kashamu, who is currently pursuing a N20bn libel suit against Obasanjo in the same court, suppressed vital facts to obtain the order.
