By Ifeoma Ikem
Mr Adewale Abiola, an employee of Lagos State government has petitioned the National Broadcasting Commission and the Nigerian Police Force, zone 2 command over alleged threat to life, character defamation and trauma caused by the Bond FM presenter’s broadcast.
In the petition made available to our reporter, Abiola said he was displeased at the broadcasts by bond 92.9 frequency modulation on Tuesday, September 8, and again on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 between 9.30am and 10.am on the program tittled: Edakun Odaran.
“It has come to my notice that the presenter, a certain” Tajudeen Ajani Ojuelegba” has on both occasions, accused me of being a murderer, drug dealer and a gang leader.
“In his broadcast, he also suggested that I am a cultist and encouraged certain persons to carry out justice on me and also gave out my family house address on air.
“All these happened on national radio, a sensitive platform which ordinarily should be held in trust for the Nigerian people’’.
He said that as a law abiding citizen, he found the allegation not only insulting, but one deliberately aimed at threat to life, slander character defamations and trauma caused by unprofessional broadcast on bond.92.9fm against me by the presenter over false allegation.
“These false allegations and malicious intentions took me to the office of the relevant security agency to clear myself because the Tajudeen Ajani Ojuelegba’s false broadcast.
“Again, I state without any reservations that these allegations are untrue, malicious and slanderous and punishable under the 1999 constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria.
“To this end, I demand an unreserved public retraction of the false allegations and apology by the presenter, Tajudeen Ajani Ojuelegba and also urged the Nigerian Broadcast Commission to review the recordings of the both editions and sanction the presenter.
He, however, added that failure to tender and unreserved public retraction of the false allegations and apology by the presenter, he will sue him and claim damages.