Lawyer Maxwell Opara is suing Twitter Nigeria and the State Security Service for defamation and negligence..
They also named the State Security Service of Nigeria and the Attorney General of the Federation as defendants in the complaint.
Opara says that a tweet from the State Security Service’s official Twitter account made negative claims about him..
In the tweet in question, Opara was accused of being an overzealous and uneducated IPOB/ESN lawyer.
Opara further claimed that the tweet’s defamatory claims impacted not just his professional and personal reputation, but also his clients’ opinion of his ability.
He seeks an official apology from the defendants, including a letter on Twitter and in a widely circulated newspaper.
The lawyer is also seeking N10 billion in general damages for what he calls the platform’s “defamatory, demeaning, disparaging, and harmful words.”
There is no set date for the hearing of the sue
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