Libel: Dare To Sue Bash Ali for N5billion

The legal team of the Minister of Youth and Sports Development,
Mr. Sunday Dare, has perfected a N5 billion libel suit against a
former boxer, Bash Ali, after he maliciously accused the minister
of wrongdoing.

The Minister, through his lawyers, Festus Keyamo Chambers, will
seek injunctive and pecuniary damages against Bash Ali and will not
hesitate to join any person, medium or organization that publishes
any of the defamatory contents authored by Bash Ali, his agents or
proxies as a co-defendant to the suit.

Bash Ali had launched a campaign of calumny against the Minister
after the Ministry declined to sign on to a supposed Guinness World
Record Boxing Championship Bout he was promoting. The Ministry had
advised the former boxer to approach the Nigerian Boxing Board of
Control (NBB of C) for support as that was the body with the
requisite jurisdiction to support his ambition.

This is particularly as the Ministry only deals with amateur
boxers and not professional boxers like him, who has never had an
amateur fight. Additionally, the bout being proposed by Bash was a
purely business affair which Bash could conveniently champion as a
private venture without the support of the Ministry.

Mr. Dare’s legal team is however set to serve a Pre-Action
letter to Bash Ali informing him of Mr. Dare’s intention to sue him
for libel and demanding that Bash withdraws the falsehood he is
peddling against the Minister and the Ministry of Youth and Sports
Development.

The said Pre-Action letter further requests Bash to stop the
spreading of false, defamatory and blackmail materials against Mr.
Dare through media channels or any other means and tender an
apology to Mr. Dare for the reputational damage occasioned by the
invidious publication.

The legal team of the Minister of Youth and Sports Development,
Mr. Sunday Dare, has perfected a N5 billion libel suit against a
former boxer, Bash Ali, after he maliciously accused the minister
of wrongdoing.

The Minister, through his lawyers, Festus Keyamo Chambers, will
seek injunctive and pecuniary damages against Bash Ali and will not
hesitate to join any person, medium or organization that publishes
any of the defamatory contents authored by Bash Ali, his agents or
proxies as a co-defendant to the suit.

Bash Ali had launched a campaign of calumny against the Minister
after the Ministry declined to sign on to a supposed Guinness World
Record Boxing Championship Bout he was promoting. The Ministry had
advised the former boxer to approach the Nigerian Boxing Board of
Control (NBB of C) for support as that was the body with the
requisite jurisdiction to support his ambition.

This is particularly as the Ministry only deals with amateur
boxers and not professional boxers like him, who has never had an
amateur fight. Additionally, the bout being proposed by Bash was a
purely business affair which Bash could conveniently champion as a
private venture without the support of the Ministry.

Mr. Dare’s legal team is however set to serve a Pre-Action
letter to Bash Ali informing him of Mr. Dare’s intention to sue him
for libel and demanding that Bash withdraws the falsehood he is
peddling against the Minister and the Ministry of Youth and Sports
Development.

The said Pre-Action letter further requests Bash to stop the
spreading of false, defamatory and blackmail materials against Mr.
Dare through media channels or any other means and tender an
apology to Mr. Dare for the reputational damage occasioned by the
invidious publication.