Obasanjo Wins Again As Court Lifts Ban On His Autobiography, ‘My Watch’

               A Federal Capital Territory High Court in Apo, Abuja, has lifted an injunction barring former President Olusegun Obasanjo from publishing his autobiography, ‘My Watch’. 

            Justice Valentine Ashi ordered ‎on the release of the books which had been in the custody of the Nigerian Customs Service. 

            The books were intercepted by the Nigerian Customs on the strength of the court injunction which was granted on December 10, 2014.
‎But Justice Valentine Ash set aside the order of injunction on Monday upon an application by Obasanjo, through his lawyer, Chief Kanu Agabi (SAN).

The court asked the customs not to collect demurrage on the books for the period they had overspent in their custody.

The court upheld Agabi’s argument that the applicant, a Peoples Democratic Party chief in Ogun State, Buruji Kashamu, who is currently pursuing a N20bn libel suit against Obasanjo in the same court, suppressed vital facts to obtain the order.

No journalist was in court when the judge lifted the injunction on Monday as the ruling was not delivered earlier on March 30, the date originally fixed for it.

New date for the ruling was said to have been later communicated to the parties.

Kashamu‎, had on December 10, 2014, obtained the injunction from the court through an ex parte application which he filed in his N20bn libel suit against Obasanjo.