All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Gregory Onwubuasi Obi
A citizen, Mr. David Eferode, has revealed
that the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed
Tinubu, allegedly bribed officials of the Nigeria Communications Commission
(NCC) and others $20 million to track the phone calls of the Labour Party (LP)
presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Gregory Onwubuasi Obi.
Mr. Eferode made the revelation in a post made on his Twitter handle, @DEferode, late Sunday evening.
He tweeted:
Executive Vice-Chairman/CEO of Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta
The post has attracted 478 comments, 2,865
retweets and 4,527 likes, including 242,700 impressions on Twitter as at the
time of this publication.
See a screenshot of the tweet below:
David Eferode claimed that Tinubu bribed NCC officials, others, $20 million to track Peter Obi’s phone calls
Committee set up to scrutinize his calls
The story was somehow corroborated by Mr.
Valentine Obienyem, the Personal Assistant on Media to Peter Obi in a press
release he made available to newsmen on Sunday.
Mr. Obienyem made it clear that one “Engr J
I”, evidently referring to Engineer Joe Igbokwe, is coordinating the rather
coordinated attacks.
In the statement entitled “Obi versus
Oyedepo: Too bad!“, Obienyem wrote:
“I heard
they set up a Committee made up of some people from National Communications
Commission, headed by our prodigal brother
from Nnewi.
“They are
reviewing all calls Obi made in the last three years, and especially now to see
if he mentioned Interim Government or anything that will make them prosecute
him for treason when and if they take over.
“Till now,
they are yet to see any.
“The badly
doctored conversation with Bishop Oyedepo released by our Nnewi prodigal
brother is the much they have discovered so far.
“They edited
out the Muslim-Muslim ticket that led to the discussion, where Obi said that in
a society like ours, religious balancing was a necessary consideration and that
their recklessness had made Christians to assume it was a religious war.”
Efforts to
demonise Obi
Earlier,
Obienyem had derided the opponents of Peter Obi in a series of posts on his
social media handle who, he said, are trying very hard “to demonise Obi”.
Titled “The
Birds of Prey“, Obienyem wrote:
“The choice
of Mr. Peter Obi as the President, evident in his overwhelming but stolen
votes, is by universal opinion the best and happiest choice. If not because of
his restraining influence and pacific inclination, the country should be
burning by now.
“There is
always a limit to which citizens fighting for genuine independence should be
treated. If we want to be frank to ourselves, we must admit that the anger in
the land has reached the boiling point where it is presently simmering.
“The camp of
Pablo Escobar realises this and is doing everything possible to demonise Obi.
At last, they thought that manipulating the result, where they took him from
the first position to the third position would render his will to continue
impotent.
“The last
desperate attempt was to gather some experts in communication under the lead of
the prodigal (Engr J I). I understand the budget is irresistible to those
without honour. “Get or contrive any
crime and publish same against him”, is
the subsisting charge.
“The way
they doctored the trending conversation justifies the insistence that the
entire conversation is fake – unrecognisable from the original.
“Did you
notice that the birds of prey have suddenly gathered to feast on what they
thought was a mistake? They are all over the place going personal against Val.
“Their anger
and frustration rest on what they perceive as Val’s unrelenting defence. Why
should he not cease defending this man so that we shall have the opportunity of
eating him raw? For me, loyalty is
blind!
“Some of
them are only annoyed that his life is full of virtues and not tainted by
stories of drug trafficking, concatenation of mistresses, intrigues and
falsification of everything, including age, parentage and origin. Must Obi remain an unusual politician, they
said to themselves?
“They pray
daily he makes a little mistake, out of descent respect for the frailties of
man; hence, they probe him unceasingly. When they could not ensnare him, they
doctored an innocuous statement he made in such a way that it is reasonable
right to dismiss the entire publication as fake.
“I can also
see some inconsequential idiots and mediocrities alternating disjointed and
amusing argument among themselves with the eagerness of a hound sniffing blood.
“They see it
as an opportunity to excoriate Val who does not even know they exist. And what are they doing? They are
barbarously expressing absurdities, which only geniuses understand.
Shopping for legitimacy
Also, Obienyem continued in another post
entitled “Wait for another four years?” over Tinubu’s
“Nobody is interested in that shopping for legitimacy! Knowing how the
election was “won”, the irreducible demand of Nigerians is that the man who stole
the mandate of the people should not for any reason answer the president of
this country even for a minute. Nigerians want the judiciary to quicken the
process and complete it before the 29th.
“On the logic of waiting for another four
years, I can only say that with what the man did even when he was not the
president, we can deduce what he can do as President. At that time, there might
be no voting but declared results.
“This is a case of elders destroying the
country!”
Compromised telco company produced Obi’s call
records
Another anonymous tweep, @PIDOMNIGERIA,
revealed that a compromised telecommunication company Peter Obi’s line is
subscribed to, produced his call records (CDRs) since he joined Labour Party to
contest for President till recently.
According to the poster, the officials set
out time to listen to his telephone conversations hoping to hear him support,
or call for interim national government, through his phone conversations so
they can have every reason to arrest and charge him for treason.
“They found nothing against him… Not even
protest” he noted.
He added that “someone from that agency,
leaked that audio, but it was badly edited to suit a certain narrative.”
@PIDOMNIGERIA tweeted:
“A certain
security agency in Nigeria (Name withheld) compromised the telco company Peter
Obi’s line is subscribed to, to get his call records (CDRs) since he joined
(LP) to contest for President, till just recently. They took time to listen to
his telephone conversations.
“They were
hoping to hear him support, or call for interim national government, through
his phone conversations. So they can have every reason to arrest him, and
charge him for treason, alongside the people he must have discussed with. But
they found nothing against him.
“They found
nothing tangible to nail him with. They listened to his phone conversations
with notable Nigerians, both locally, and across the globe.
“They found
nothing. Not even protest.
“Someone
from that agency, leaked that audio, but it was badly edited to suit a certain
narrative.
“The phone
conversations between Peter Obi and Bishop Oyedepo, was about the Muslim-Muslim
ticket. Obi said, in a society like Nigeria, religious balancing was a
necessary consideration. But the recklessness of those pushing for Muslim-Muslim
ticket, has made some Christians to assume this election is a religious war.
“But the
people behind this propaganda, carefully edited, cut and joined the
conversation, to appear as if Peter Obi, was calling for a religious war. Just
to paint his candidacy, as religiously driven movement.”
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