{"id":237670,"date":"2026-06-28T17:56:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T15:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-peter-obi-finally-files-n8bn-lawsuit-against-kenneth-okonkwo-over-defamation\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T17:56:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T15:56:01","slug":"nigeria-peter-obi-finally-files-n8bn-lawsuit-against-kenneth-okonkwo-over-defamation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-peter-obi-finally-files-n8bn-lawsuit-against-kenneth-okonkwo-over-defamation\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Peter Obi Finally Files N8bn Lawsuit Against Kenneth Okonkwo Over Defamation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\"><em>PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that Mr Obi had threatened to file a N5 billion lawsuit against Mr Okonkwo if he failed to withdraw his fraud and extortion allegations against the NDC candidate, pay N5 billion as compensation, and tender a public apology within seven days.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has finally filed a N8 billion lawsuit against his former spokesperson and chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Kenneth Okonkwo, for alleged&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606260295.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that Mr Obi had threatened to file a N5 billion lawsuit against Mr Okonkwo if he failed to withdraw his fraud and extortion allegations against the NDC candidate, pay N5 billion as compensation, and tender a public apology within seven days. The Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":237671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,7356,14573,8415,12340,10205,54721,257,4687,393,22463,17670,6066,254],"class_list":["post-237670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-defamation","tag-files","tag-finally","tag-kenneth","tag-lawsuit","tag-n8bn","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-obi","tag-okonkwo","tag-peter","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}