Media personality, Toke Makinwa, has denied dating and defaming Abuja-based business tycoon, Alhaji Aliyu Abubakar.
The businessman, via his lawyers, had accused Toke of defaming his character and requesting unfilled promises.
According to the letter from Femi Falana SAN, lawyer to the businessman, Aliyu claimed that Toke and himself had dated and she had requested for some promises.
Abubakar had warned Toke that failure to retract and apologize, she would be slammed with a N50 billion lawsuit for defamation of character.
However, in a letter of response by her lawyers, Makinwa has described the online publication as the handiwork of mischief makers who want to exploit her personality to attract traffic to their online sites.
Toke Makinwa said she has never met the businessman.
The letter signed by Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika SAN, urged the businessman to take action against the malicious online platforms claiming that his client did not have any business with the said interview.
The letter read, “My client, Toke Makinwa is surprised to receive your letter in the above caption dated January 1, 2022, even after she had, on an earlier telephone call on the same issue, told Mr Feml Falana, SAN that she has never heard of your client’s name or his existence as a human being before his phone call
“Perhaps you will consider redirecting your demand letter to the mischievous characters (that is, the online publishers) who, hiding under the anonymity of the internet and obviously aiming to exploit my client’s name and image to attract traffic to their worthless websites, authored and published the fictional association of your client with her, which speaking frankly, demeans her self worth as a woman and insults her psyche as a human being (as may have been the further motive of the fabricators and purveyors} ”
