Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has threatened to drag his predecessor, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, to court for libel if he fails to apologise for referring to his administration as "a regime of spurious lies."
Specifically, Ajimobi is asking the former governor to withdraw the comment credit to him in the media within seven days or be ready to face the consequence.
The governor's position was contained in a letter addressed to Alao-Akala and his spokesman, Mr. Dotun Oyelade, by his(Ajimobi) Senior Special Assistant on Legal Matters, Mr. Ojo Adebayo.
A copy of the letter was made available to newsmen in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Thursday.
In the letter, Ajimobi said as much as his administration was not averse to public criticism of any of its actions and activities, it frowned at a "medley of falsehood and campaigns of calumny" that Alao-Akala had been peddling against him.
The falsehood, he added, was capable of tarnishing his name and that of his administration.
The letter reads, "The attention of the Oyo State Government has been drawn to the series of spurious lies being told in the media by the defeated gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party through his spokesman, Mr. Dotun Oyelade, against government and the person of the governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi.
"This regime of falsehood is targeted at lowering the esteem and general approval given by the people of Oyo State to the governor and the government in the state which the people consider to be a better alternative to the out-gone government."
Punch