Tuesday 27 June 2017

Between Sowore and Lekan Fatodu: For Record Purpose

A quick response to Mr. Olanrewaju Suraju , Head, Civil Society Network Against Corruption (CSNAC)

Mr. Olanrewaju Suraju, (I’m going to hereafter address you as LarryKay -  the nickname individuals like myself who have known you for so long do call you) I have just read your latest FB post regarding the issue between myself and Sowore which you have described as my “hostilities against Sowore”. And I think it is important to respond to some fundamental aspects of your note to correct some critical assumptions therein.


1. You know very well and a lot of people can attest to the fact that Lekan Fatodu is one of the most humble human beings on this earth. And I suppose the respectful gestures I do accord you whenever we see or speak on the  phone are pointers to this fact. And, that you do reciprocate in similar measures, even though you are older, says so much about your decency. Thus I believe that’s the way perfect relationship is nurtured regardless of age differences.

So I wonder, either to a friend or protege or whatever definition you may deem suitable for the relationship that exists between myself and Sowore, if the way Sowore initially attacked me with LIES over a matter that was intended to only serve his selfish interest was how People’s  Dignity (friend, protege, house-help etc) should be Protected? 

2. LarryKay, let me state without equivocation that there are lots which are hidden to you about my long-term friendship with Sowore. But I will only delve on any aspects of this  relationship that is raised on this matter or connected to this issue at hand. 

3. You stated that you “Had seen saharareporters of sowore promote Lekan's publication, "Check out'' a number of times”. LarryKay, I will excuse your INNOCENT ERROR with that statement.
**** May I not see the GOODNESS OF GOD If I didn’t PAY well over $3,000 (over Three Thousand US Dollars) for the “promotion” that you thought Sowore was doing for me & CheckOut for FREE particularly in 2008 (imagine such money in 2008!), during the good days of Saharareporters. 

Even though I was HELPING Sowore with many of his reports from London then, he still collected payments for adverts/promotion from me through a lady called LAURA. 

Here’s one of my email evidences and I still have some of the receipts of several payments to Sowore.
Please ask Sowore who LAURA was, and what the DEAL I mentioned in the email attached was all about.
4. On my contract with the National Security Adviser Office- like I’ve stated severally, it’s a thing of PRIDE for my company and myself to have taken a job at that level of government and delivered excellently. It’s actually a plus to the Local Content Policy of the government that Nigerians with necessary skills and capabilities are helping with development across sectors.
So no one can ever alter that story. I have succeeded in it and I will continue to control the narratives on the matter by myself.
5. I’m surprised you stated that I came to your office to “confess”. Does it mean “confessing” to you prevented the Contract Verification Committee of the NSA that invited my company together with over 200 other companies in Nigeria to defend their contracts from looking at my papers?
Or does it mean that stopped SOWORE from bragging then that he had gotten an “exclusive” that would harm me?
LarryKay, the God we both profess know that I was only in your office to share my deep shock and frustration over the wickedness of Sowore to me. And I showed you some of the chats between myself and Sowore on the phone in which you told me Sowore said to you that I wasn’t humble to him when he called for 3 days on the matter (I'm sure you also stated the days) and that I was also challenging him rudely.
6. On FFK, I will never deny any public figure or politician that I’ve had or still maintain a relationship with (check my FB there are many pictures of people I’ve interacted with, I’ve got nothing to hide). I actually remember telling Sowore when he was asking some silly stuff about my relationship with FFK then that he should also question why someone like Mr. Femi Falana and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu are still friends if being friends with politicians had become such a grave abomination.
7. My first interaction with FFK (a former Minister of Aviation) started on the phone from London when I was doing a Special Edition on Aviation and we featured Ayo Omotade (a London-based Nigerian who is not a politician) on our COVER to highlight the unfortunate treatment Ayo narrated was metted out to him on a British Airways flight. And we had FFK talk with CheckOut, after a long absence from public discourse, in the same edition (see the cover here). And by this interaction I’ve met different people through whom I’d rendered my expertise where necessary. What is most important is that whatever I do is legitimate and without any iota of doubt in the quality of the service delivered. That's part of what I told Sowore.
8. LarryKay, I remember your expression of shock to me in your office when you asked if I did open up to Sowore like this and yet he portrayed me wrongly in that publication. So it will be so unfair if by trying to cover Sowore now you intend to alter the true picture of the event.
9. You also stated wrongly in your note that I appeared before the EFCC  (I’m sure Sowore must have used the EFCC to convince you as he did to blackmail and threaten me in that audio-telephone conversation). Let me repeat, I appeared before the NSA and I came out victorious like every other entity that did an excellent job and that's why I’m EMBOLDENED to CONFRONT SOWORE with the TRUTH. So please forget the thought that some powerful people are behind me. I only have God, the Almighty.
10. Finally, trust me, if it’s about FORENSIC REVIEW & ANALYSIS of the evidences in my hand (including some audio/video recordings) SOWORE will be highly disappointed.  Of course, I’m smart enough not to release all my evidences at the time (that’s why you would think my allegations against Sowore were an after-thought). If you are available, I will meet with you with some compelling FACTS.
Meanwhile, I believe someone like you, being a known advocate of civil liberties, will not see my protest against social injustice and other societal ills such as Fake News, Blackmailing, Cyber-bulling etc as an aberration in this context.
Thank you.

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