President Goodluck Jonathan has threatened legal action after reports he missed an important investment summit in London after "heavy" birthday celebrations at his suite at a luxury Park Lane hotel the night before.
Goodluck Jonathan sought medical attention for what his adviser said was "an
indisposition" the day after his 56th birthday, and doctors recommended
that he rest instead of attending the meeting.
But an online news service claimed that instead he was laid low after
overindulging at the presidential suite at the Park Lane InterContinental
hotel during a party that the website alleged "lasted till early [in
the] morning".
This was an "entirely fictional, malicious, hate-driven and scurrilous
distortion of the facts of the president's indisposition", Reuben
Abati, Mr Goodluck's media chief, said in a statement on behalf of his boss.
"Their incessant claim of a bibulous president is pure fiction and
blackmail, and the product of malicious imagination," he said.
"We warn that our forbearance of their