Innoson has today admitted that there was no Supreme Court judgement against GTBank.
After
falsely claiming a victory at the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Chairman of
Innoson Motors, Dr Innocent Chukwuma has admitted to completely
distorting the directive of the Supreme Court and publicly apologized
for spreading fake and malicious news.
Innoson had earlier
deleted his declaration on social media that the apex court has ordered
GTBank to pay him N14bn within 14 days.
This was followed by a
statement by his spokesman Cornelius Osigwe in which Innoson walked back
from his false declaration stating instead that “There have been a lot
of misinterpretations on the Press Release published by Innoson Group on
the decision of the Supreme Court”.
This retraction, judicial
analysts believe, was advised by Innoson’s lawyers who fear that
contempt of court charges on defaming the Supreme Court may be brought
against the embattled businessman.
Last week Thursday,
Innosoncaused a social and online media storm by falsely claiming that
the Supreme Court had ruled in his favour for GTBank to pay him N14bn.
However, records of the court proceedings showed no such ruling.
GTBank had also advised the public that Innoson’s claims were “false, mischievous and malicious”.
“There
was no directive or Order issued by the Supreme Court of Nigeria to the
Bank to make any payment to any of its debtor Customers. We again
reiterate that there is no iota of truth in the falsehood being peddled
by desperate and mischievous elements and the General Public should
disregard same in its entirety,” part of the Bank’s press statement
read.
As facts on ground became clear that Innoson’s claim on
social media was entirely false, the embattled businessman moved to
silently delete the Fake News Tweet from his company’s Twitter Account.
On Monday, June 11, 2018, innoson apologized for misleading the public.
However, Nigerians did not take the company’s lies lightly.
“I
cannot believe this, how can someone have total disregard for the
highest court in the Land and go on a rampage spreading fake news. This
Innoson and his team of lawyers and advisers have no shred of
credibility” a Twitter user said.
Another user, whose tweet appears below, lamented that Innoson had fooled Nigerians.
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