Court dismisses Emeka Ike’s N10bn damages suit against Wike’s aide and INEC

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By Linda Ikeji
28 October 2026, 11:49 am
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Justice Salim Ibrahim of the Federal High Court in Abuja has actually dismissed the N10 billion rights fit submitted by star Emeka Ike versus Lere Olayinka, Senior Special Assistant to FCT Minister Nyesom Wike, and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

In a judgment provided today, Justice Ibrahim maintained the initial objections of the participants on the premises that the fit mishandled and poorly made up.

Justice Ibrahim likewise dismissed the primary match on the ground of absence of evidence.

Emeka Ike, who desired compete for your home of Representatives’ seat for AMAC/Bwari Federal Constituency, Abuja, for the 2027 basic elections on the platform of the Nigerian Democratic Congress (NDC), lost the quote in a main survey.

Olayinka, through a post on X in May, was declared to have actually buffooned Ike by dripping his private citizen registration information on social networks, an action Ike discovered to be a violation on his right and approached the court for relief.

In his court documents, Ike requested for a statement that Olayinka’s choice to release his database on X without his approval “totals up to gross breach and offense of the candidate’s basic right to personal privacy and the defense of individual information”.

The star hoped the court to award him N10 billion versus Olayinka and INEC as worsened and basic damages, to be paid collectively and severally for breaking his essential right to personal privacy.

In a different counter-affidavit, INEC and Olayinka hoped the court to dismiss the match in its whole. The electoral body in its action, stated the concern grumbled about in the match submitted by Ike was neither categorized, delicate nor secret information.

On his part, Olayinka, stated the info he released on X was currently in the general public domain and was not accessed through any illegal ways.

Olayinka specified that he did not owe the star any task of care and privacy and did not need his grant release his name and passport picture that was currently in the general public domain.