Yesterday at the swearing in of newly appointed Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs), the attorney-general of the federation and minister of justice, Michael Aondoakaa, indicated that he would sue LEADERSHIP for defaming him in a story posted on its website. According to Nigeria's No. 1 law officer, LEADERSHIP reported that he collected $30million from the presidency and delivered it to justices of the Supreme Court before the apex court's ruling of last Friday on the presidential election held in April 2007.

There is no doubt that LEADERSHIP would have gladly investigated a claim in that direction - and published the good story if confirmed to be true. But all of Aondoakaa's allegations are a figment of his imagination, as our readers all over the world can testify. Nothing of the like has ever appeared on our website or in any of our titles.

Accordingly, we have good reasons to believe that the attorney-general is one of those that are growing paranoid about LEADERSHIP. He may require medical attention. We thank him all the same for giving us and other media a good lead as regards the dispensation of justice in Nigeria.