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Lere Olayinka, Senior Special Assistant connected Public Communications and Social Media to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, has deed backmost astatine activistic and steadfast of SaharaReporters, Omoyele Sowore, implicit the latter’s corruption allegations against the the Minister, saying Sowore was lone acrophobic of his “scamming shadow,” describing his allegation that President Bola Tinubu and Wike wanted to assassinate him arsenic “one of the caput games helium plays to prolong his beingness of scams.”
Olayinka, successful a connection connected Saturday, said Sowore should alternatively look his transgression proceedings and beryllium acceptable to supply the tribunal judgement successful which President Tinubu was erstwhile convicted to support his reckless statement.
The FCT Minister’s spokesperson said: “Someone similar Sowore, who collected implicit $3 cardinal successful 2019 to merchantability the governorship summons of the African Action Congress (AAC) successful Rivers State and was suspended by the enactment for corruption indispensable person a batch of victims of his scams to contend with.
“In 2020, this aforesaid Sowore was accused by Oluwatosin Adeniji of pocketing an #EndSARS grant, which helium (Sowore) applied for connected her behalf without her knowledge.
“Between 2016 and 2019, Sowore collected $1.3 cardinal from MacArthur Foundation and has been collecting millions of Dollars from different overseas donors, for the intent of grooming journalists successful Nigeria, which helium ne'er did.
“He is besides known for utilizing his online medium, SaharaReporters to blackmail and extort wealth from radical portion keeping his unit successful abject poverty.
“Therefore, if determination is immoderate menace to the beingness of Sowore, it indispensable beryllium from those helium had scammed oregon blackmailed. He should permission President Tinubu and the FCT Minister retired of the impending repercussions of his beingness of scams.”
Olayinka, who said Sowore was already getting person to the extremity of his wit, added that, “All the sound helium has been making astir Wike successful the past 48 hours is conscionable the past footwear of a dying horse. He knows the consequences and gravity of the charges against him. He is, therefore, playing his accustomed caput crippled truthful arsenic to contiguous himself arsenic a unfortunate successful bid to prolong his scams.
“He is moving riot astir acquisition of properties successful United States. Did the Minister contradict that his woman has properties successful the US? Is it an offence for anyone to ain properties successful the US done inheritance oregon purchase?
“And is that Sowore’s defence for publishing outright falsehood and calling the President a criminal?
“Is that his defence for collecting $3 cardinal to merchantability his party’s governorship ticket, and keeping soundlessness erstwhile radical were killed successful Rivers State successful 2019 to unit the campaigner connected whom helium was paid connected the radical of Rivers State?
“Is that his defensc for doing Yahoo Yahoo by collecting millions of dollars from overseas donors nether mendacious pretense?
“Like I person maintained, Sowore tin lone tally and fell nether Cashtivist for a while, helium volition get to the extremity of his scamming wit soon.”
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