Information reaching suggests that the Governor of Plateau State Da. Jonah Jang, may be on the verge of instituting a N1 billion suit against Honourable Ibrahim Baba Hassan, over what has been said to be a “wicked and malicious attack on the Government of Plateau State.”

In a document made available to journalist, Jang frowned at a statement credited to Hassan in the Guardian newspaper of Thursday, 5th June, 2014, to the effect that ‘…the missing N10 billion SURE-P mentioned in the petition is real… we most probe the state government over this huge financial scam because we are talking of public fund here.”

A letter from the Renaissance Chambers written to the legislator, signed by S.G. Odey, Esq. said on Governor Jang’s express instructions as “our client”, the said publication credited to the member are defamatory to the person of our client.

Information reaching us suggests that the Governor of Plateau State Da. Jonah Jang, may be on the verge of instituting a N1 billion suit against Honourable Ibrahim Baba Hassan, over what has been said to be a “wicked and malicious attack on the Government of Plateau State.”

In a document made available to journalist, Jang frowned at a statement credited to Hassan in the Guardian newspaper of Thursday, 5th June, 2014, to the effect that ‘…the missing N10 billion SURE-P mentioned in the petition is real… we most probe the state government over this huge financial scam because we are talking of public fund here.”

A letter from the Renaissance Chambers written to the legislator, signed by S.G. Odey, Esq. said on Governor Jang’s express instructions as “our client”, the said publication credited to the member are defamatory to the person of our client.

The letter said the words of the legislator have meant that, Governor Jonah Jang is has committed acts of gross misconduct and is therefore  incapable of leadership of the state.

The letter said this and many more innuendoes are not only mind boggling but contain total falsehood, full of mischief and offensive to person of Jang, stressing that the published statements has generated a lot of disdain expressed to the governor from across his family members, friends and political associates through several phone calls within and outside the country.

“In the light of the forgoing false and malicious publication concerning our client, you have 48 hours to offer unqualified apology by retracting the publication, … to be circulated in four national dailies..”, it demanded. “Our client has instructed us to demand and we hereby do, that in addition to the retraction of the offensive and malicious publication, you pay to him the sum of N1, 000,000,000.0, (One billion)”.

Although the letter was probably mistakenly addressed to “Hon. Ahmed Baba Hassan” rather than Ibrahim Baba Hassan, it gathered from the legislator who said on a telephone chat that he has not yet seen the said letter, “So I cannot comment, I have my reservation for now.”

The issue of alleged gross misconduct of several billions of Naira by the Plateau State Government under Governor Jang, which was pending for probe before the state House of Assembly committee on public accounts as contained in the said petition written by a group, Plateau Patriotic Front” (PPF), has for the past weeks been the burning issue that has created a serious rift between the executive and the state legislators who had insisted that the petition should be looked into.

Culled from the Blueprint news organisatioon

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Allegations of financial impropriety against PLSG – Jang demands N1 Billion of damages from Hon. Hassan