Kassim Afegbua, the media adviser to former military president Ibrahim Babangida, on Tuesday, sued the Nigerian Police Force.
The suit, a fundamental human rights enforcement suit is accompanied by a demand for N1bn in damages from the police, its spokesperson, Jimoh Ibrahim and two media houses.
The media houses -Channels Television and the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA)- were joined in the suit for airing claims that Afegbua is a wanted man.
The suit seeks an immediate end to the harassment he alleges the police have been meting out to him.
The suit was filed on his behalf by his legal counsel, Kayode Ajulo, at the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court.
The media aide, who released a statement he purported was from his principal, was declared wanted by the police.
The statement, described as defamatory by Ibrahim on Monday while on Channels TV, said former head of state Ibrahim Babangida advising Nigerians to vote out President Muhammadu Buhari come 2019.
This took a turn when a counter-statement, which called Afegbua’s false, was released just hours after.
