Certificate scandal: I have been left psychologically and emotionally traumatised, Melaye tells court Pu

Senator Dino Melaye, has said the certificate scandal brought up by online news medium Sahara Reporters has caused him psychological stress and emotional trauma.
Melaye, who represents Kogi West in the Senate filed a N5bn libel lawsuit against the outfit said he would provide his certificate as evidence.
In the suit he filed through his lawyer, Mr. Mark Ikongbeh, Senator Melaye, insisted that he graduated from the Department of Geography of the Ahmadu Bello University.
He told the court that the scandal has made some of friends and associates abandon him owing to the defamatory publication by the defendants.
The defendants in the suit marked M/4812/17, were, the Incorporated Trustees of Sahara Reporters Media Foundation, Omoyele Sowore, Temitope Olumuyide and Sahara Reporters Media Group Inc.
Melaye also filed for an injunction restraining the defendants, by themselves or by their servants or agents, from making further publications on the issue.
He is equally seeking N10million as cost of the legal action.
He said, “Many invitations to honourable events have been withdrawn and attempts to reach out to several people who had very cordial relations with the plaintiff has been met with a cold shoulder.
“The plaintiff has suffered great psychological stress and emotional trauma by reason of the defamatory publications arising from the loss of company he has suffered from friends and associates.
“This precarious psychology state has been exacerbated by the number of people whom the plaintiff has had to reach out to or who have reached out to him for explanation and reassurance of the truth in the situation.
“The plaintiff has greatly been weighed down emotionally by the sudden loss of huge public goodwill which he enjoyed prior to the publication of the defamatory publication.”