{"id":8919,"date":"2025-09-29T12:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=8919"},"modified":"2025-09-29T12:22:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:22:21","slug":"subsidy-fraud-umar-sani-dares-otedola-over-n1bn-lawsuit-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2025\/09\/29\/subsidy-fraud-umar-sani-dares-otedola-over-n1bn-lawsuit-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Subsidy fraud: Umar Sani Dares Otedola Over N1bn Lawsuit Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Umar Sani, a former aide to former Vice President Namadi Sambo, has penned a reply to Nigerian billionaire Femi Otedola, who threatened a N1 billion libel suit against him.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Otedola had instructed his lawyer to slam a N1 billion suit against Umar Sani over his comment linking him to fuel subsidy fraud under ex-President Goodluck Jonathan\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p>Otedola described Sani\u2019s hit back at him as \u201cmalicious lies.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-18\">\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1524595905268-5\" data-google-query-id=\"CJny7uX5_Y8DFdrwEQgd9JIwQg\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/14001636\/DP_InsidePost_MPU_2_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In responding to Otedola\u2019s threat on X, Sani said that the courts are institutions no Nigerian of good conscience should fear to approach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will be on Arise TV at 3 p.m. to respond to these assertions. The courts are institutions no Nigerian of good conscience should ever fear to approach,\u201d he wrote on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Otedola had claimed that N2 trillion was siphoned through questionable subsidy claims under Jonathan&#8217;s .<\/p>\n<p>In reply to Otedola, Sani described the businessman\u2019s claim as a \u201d Hypocritical selective and convenient rewriting of history noting that he was a beneficiary of the subsidy fraud.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Umar Sani, a former aide to former Vice President Namadi Sambo, has penned a reply to Nigerian billionaire Femi Otedola, who threatened a N1 billion libel suit against him. On Monday, Otedola had instructed&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8921,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8919\/revisions\/8921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}