Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo, popularly known as D'banj, has sued his rape accuser, Seyitan Babatayo for N1.5 billion Naira.
In an initial lawsuit, D'banj demanded N100 million Naira from Seyitan
Babatayo for "defamation of character" after she accused him of rape and demanded an apology through her lawyers.
Now, after all that has happened in recent times, D'banj, through his
lawyer, Mike Ozekhome Chambers, has asked Ms Babatayo to pay N1.5
billion Naira.
N1 billion was demanded in damages "over the untold embarrassment,
derision, public ridicule, odium, obloguy, marital disharmony, mental
agony and psychological trauma which the Defendants' tweets and
publication have caused the claimant."
N500 million was demanded as "aggravated, puniitive, and exemplary damages."
The suit also demanded that Seyitan writes D'banj "a letter of unreserved apology for the offensive tweets and posts".
D'banj's lawyers also prayed the court to grant "an order of perpetual
injunction restraining the defendant from further publishing, tweeting
or posting offesnive libelous statements."
Recall that a week ago, Seyitan released a statement detailing the
timeline of her case with D'banj. She had initially posted a tweet
denying that she was arrested on D'banj's orders. She also said she
wanted to put everything behind her.
However, in the statement released afterwards, she said she was arrested and held for 24 hours after which she was released to D'banj's team who took her to an undisclosed location, denied her access to her family and lawyers, threatened her, took over control of her social media account, and coerced her to retract her statement.
On Thursday, July 2, activist Segun "Segalink" Awosanya shared a thread
on Twitter where he said Seyitan was not detained by D'banj's team as
claimed.
However, today, he did a turnaround and stated that Seyitan didn't lie
and that she was indeed detained but not "kidnapped" by D'banj's team as
the "e-femists" claimed.
Below are documents from D'banj's lawyers demanding N1.5 billion from Seyitan.
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