Bashi Ali sues ex-sports minister Dare for ₦500b over alleged extortion
World boxing champion and nationwide honour recipient Bash Ali (OON) has filed a lawsuit in opposition to mature Minister of Sports actions Mr Sunday Akin Dare sooner than an Abuja Excessive Court over ₦500 billion in alleged extortion and defamation of persona.
Court documents obtained by journalists expose that the topic, filed below suit quantity FCT/HC/CV/6411/2023, is scheduled for listening to on Thursday, July 3, 2025, at Excessive Court 4, Maitama, Federal Capital Territory.
Bash Ali is demanding ₦500 billion in damages from Mr. Dare, who at this time serves because the Particular Adviser to President Bola Tinubu.
The suit also joins the Ministry of Formative years and Sports actions Vogue (now the Nationwide Sports actions Commission) and the Federal Authorities of Nigeria as co-defendants.
Moreover joined within the case brought sooner than the court docket by Ali—thru his 10-man prison crew led by mature Minister of Communications, Barrister Adebayo Shittu—are the Ministry of Formative years and Sports actions Vogue (now the Nationwide Sports actions Commission) and the Federal Authorities of Nigeria.
In an announcement, the Director of Communications and Publicity for the Bash Ali Guinness World Data Boxing Project, Harry Agina, acknowledged: “It'd be recalled that Bash Ali had, in a series of letters to President Bola Tinubu, accused the Federal Authorities of Nigeria (FGN)—thru the website online of enterprise of the Chief of Personnel to the President—of facilitating an advance price of \$12 million. He also accused the FGN, thru the then Minister of Sports actions and now Particular Adviser on Media to the President, Sunday Akin Dare, and Barr. D.A. Muhammad on the Nationwide Sports actions Commission, of extorting ₦13 million from him.”
Agina extra claimed that after mature Minister of Sports actions and now Minister of Instruct for Commerce and Funding, John Enoh, allegedly tried and failed to extort one other $1 million, the FGN stalled the online web hosting of the fundamental Guinness World File Boxing Championship fight on African soil and the a big collection of advantages it can presumably delight in dropped at Nigeria.
Consistent with Bash Ali, his refusal to cooperate with inaccurate govt officers is the considerable fair within the help of the ways being mature to extend or sabotage the online web hosting of the Guinness World File Boxing Championship fight—an tournament anticipated to be presumably the most lucrative within the historical previous of Pay-Per-Sight tv income.
