Obanikoro Threatens Sahara Reporters Over Ekiti Tape

Senator Musiliu Obanikoro has been threatening to sue New-York-based news-agency Sahara Reporters over the Ekiti rigging record, which the agency revealed.

Senator managed to get his New York-based lawyer to send a ‘warning letter’ hoping to shut up the agency while he shops for corrupt Nigerian senators to confirm his appointment as minister of senate for defense.

In this letter, Obanikoro admits that he was there at the meeting where the rigging plot took place.

Read his letter below:
“I represent Senator Musiliu Obanikoro and have read your and Sahara Reporters’ false, disparaging, and defamatory statements concerning Sen. Obanikoro. I also have no doubt that you are defaming him through false and baseless statements made to third parties.

“For example, you recently stated during a February 14, 2015 “Sit Out” that Sen. Obanikoro “has killed many people in Lagos state” and is a “murderer.” According to my client, you simply have no factual basis to make such an utterly baseless and incredible statement. Indeed, the very fact that you would make such an outlandish statement evidences your clear bias and that your “reporting” is merely propaganda for Sen. Obanikoro’s political opponents.

“Furthermore, you recently reported on the Sahara Reporters website that you have an audio recording of a purported meeting between Sen. Obanikoro, Governor Ayo Fayose, Gen. Aliyu Momoh and others that allegedly evidences that: (a) soldiers were paid with a “huge stash cash” to rig an election in Ekiti; (b) Gen. Momoh was bribed “for his assistance in carrying out election fraud in Ekiti”; (c) “Governor Fayose revealed that he had already bribed an official”; (d) there was a “forging of INEC ballots”; and (e) the military “prevented APC voters from reaching the polls.” This is a complete fabrication and Sen. Obanikoro vehemently denies participating in any conversations where such issues were discussed.

“Additionally, even assuming the authenticity of the purported recording and that it was not manipulated, there are no statements by Sen. Obanikoro that substantiate your claims. Simply put, these alleged statements are not heard on this audio and nothing on the audio supports such purported claims. In fact, the audio is of an alleged vague conversation concerning security for an election, not election rigging, fraud or bribing officials. You clearly knew this fact when you reported the abovc-rcfcrenced defamatory statements.

“I demand that you, Sahara Reporters and/or any entity under your control immediately cease and desist from making any false and disparaging statements about Sen. Obanikoro on the internet or to any third party and immediately and publically retract the above-referenced defamatory statements. If you fail to do so and continue your defamatory conduct, my office will aggressively pursue all legal remedies against you, Sahara Reporters and/or any entity under your control, including commencing a defamation action against you wherein we will seek substantial compensatory damages, punitive damages, sanctions and attorney’s fees.

“The foregoing recitation and analysis of facts and law shall not be construed to be an admission of any facts or legal conclusions. This letter is not a delineation of all of the positions, claims, rights, remedies, or defenses of my client, or of all of the facts involved, and nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit any of my client’s rights or remedies, all of which are expressly reserved.”

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