Contrary to earlier denials, embattled ministerial nominee, Musiliu Obanikoro, has confessed to several Senators in Abuja that he did participate in an election-eve meeting in Ekiti in June 2014 in which a group of politicians and government ministers met with a Nigerian army general to rig the governorship election in favor of Ayodele Fayose, the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

The meeting, which is now known as “Ekitigate”, was secretly taped by an army captain who was subsequently forced to flee for his life.

Despite the scandal, President Jonathan went ahead to nominate Obanikoro into his cabinet for the second time, and the nominee is lobbying the Senators to give him a pass during his upcoming nomination hearing.  It is in the process that he has confessed to some of them that he was indeed present at the rigging meeting in Akure, on behalf of the President, to ensure that everything went smoothly.

Obanikoro’s story is that he was simply making “peace” between the army and Ayo Fayose at the meeting, claiming that he was not party to any conversation about rigging.  On the contrary, Obanikoro, who was at the time junior Minister for Defence, is overheard clearly on the tape bragging about the authority granted him by President Jonathan.

Prior to admitting his involvement to the Senators, the former minister met with President Jonathan to discuss the tape and his role. A presidency source said Obanikoro told President Jonathan he was present at the meeting but that a part of the audio-recording was “doctored”. 

They said President Jonathan had called him to the meeting to discuss how to mitigate the damage created by the leaked tape.  He told the Senators categorically that it was Jonathan himself who had sent him to Ekiti to help Fayose win the election.  On the tape, Obanikoro says, at least twice, that he is on a “mission” for the President. 

He also reportedly told President Jonathan at their meeting that he had asked his US-based lawyers to do a separate voice analysis of the tape and that the lawyers came back with “proof” that certain aspects of the tape had been doctored by SaharaReporters to make the regime look bad.  Counting on that assurance, President Jonathan told a team of reporters from the Wall Street Journal during an interview that the tapes were not real and that he would not investigate the incident.

Obanikoro also told President Jonathan that his US-based lawyers had assured him that they could file some cases against SaharaReporters in the US to “teach SaharaReporters and its publisher, Omoyele Sowore” a lesson. He explained to the president that with enough financial support, his lawyers would file the case and also employ private detectives to take down SaharaReporters. President Jonathan reportedly nodded at the idea, and asked Obanikoro not to worry.

Following that meeting, the former Minister began a series of legal threats last week claiming to have sued SaharaReporters, as well as The Punch newspaper and Premium Times, both in Lagos.  Up until now, those newspapers are yet to be served copies of the lawsuit.

On Tuesday night, Obanikoro, who is also a US citizen, assured some of the Senators that his US lawyers had already filed the libel suit against SaharaReporters in New York.

On Wednesday, Obanikoro deployed a small rented a crowd of protesters to hold placards in front of the National Assembly to denounce the All Progressives Congress.

It is to be noted that two other key participants at the meeting, Police Minister Jelili Adesiyan and Ayo Fayose, the beneficiary of the Ekiti governorship rigging, have admitted that they were at the meeting that was taped by the army captain.

For Obanikoro’s role in the rigging of the election, APC has advocated his being banned from holding any public office, and asked the Senate not to confirm him.  Mr. Jonathan is known to have re-nominated Obanikoro as his prize for stepping down from the PDP governorship race in Lagos. 


Source:
http://saharareporters.com/2015/02/18/ministerial-nominee-obanikoro-confesses-he-was-ekiti-rigging-meeting-says-jonathan-sent


Chymystique abeg move this this to the front page. Let people know and learn the truth.

ONE OF THOSE APC LIES.
Whenever SATAN listens to one of APC's lies, he
screams "GOD FORBID".

Sahara reporters better be careful, this people are really pro-APC.

,,WALAHI, IT HAS ENDED FOR PDP ALREADY....



ALL THIS IMBECILES, THIEVES, CABALS AND FOOLS WILL ROT IN JAIL AND LATER ROT IN HELL WHEN THE PEOPLES GENERAL GETS INTO POWER......

I STILL REP ONE WORD

,#CHANGE


I CANT IMAGINE A PRESIDENT SAYING, CORRUPTION IS DIFFERENT FROM STEALING...

SAI BUHARI

(SINGING IN BOLA ARE"S VOICE) : I HAVE DECIDED, TO FOLLOW CHANGE,

Y no truth in the land abi bros femi really main am when he say truth don die

Why is Obanikoro scared to charge Sahara reporters to court if what they reporting is false..well he doesn't need to confess,we have ears and we listened to the tape.

Reason why Jonadumb couldn't dare commence investigation on the controversial case.

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at least one of these confession threads must make fp.

drtwist:
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Are u tryin 2 say sumtin?

Nigeria is at the threshold of its redemption. It would take some galactic event to hold her back.

First they all completely denied any such meeting ever took place, and now they say yes it did but the purpose isn't really as reported. These are some of the guys that would sacrifice one of their children to ensure a Buhari never gets to Aso Rock; they know the implication of having someone as upright as the General at the helm of affairs.

P igs D ig P igs your days are numbered

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ok

chymystique:
GEJ is a Foolish man! Someone should please tutor that man on how to use "Power"... wtf! We all know almost all politicians rig but am wondering how GEJ allowed himself to be entangled in this mess with koro.. He shoulda transferred the whole blame on koro @ first when the video came out and leave him to bear the consequences of being caught! Afterall the rule has always being "Though should not be caught" Kai

My dear gej is not foolish....... If he leaves koro to carry the cross alone, he knows koro will definitely implicate him the more. Koro clearly stated he was on a mission for him which means there's still more that's hidden to the people. Its better to keep him at bay, at least for the time being.
And if he allows this event to spiral out of control on the brink of elections, it can cause a great damage to his presidential ambition.

One by one, them go expose their self finish.

chymystique:


@bolded, thats mere words and it might be a lie.. My main reason for calling GEJ foolish was because he came out and defended the video saying it was fabricated instead of him to make a pubiC statement and diassociate himself from the statements made in the video and allow koro bear the blame alone with the consequences attached OR keep his mouth shut and make his ears deaf concerning the allegation.. He is the commander in Chief while Koro is an errand man that is a very big distinct between the both. Still with the allegations laid on top koro's head even though not yet declared guilty, he still went ahead to nominate him. Am wondering what he hopes to achieve by doing that. GEJ implicated himself and is damaging himself more.

Can you tell me why you think koro lied...
Don't you think the presidency made the picture clearer by trying to shield him.
If koro was indeed lying, then I see no reason why the presidency should try to protect him

chymystique:


@bolded, thats mere words and it might be a lie.. My main reason for calling GEJ foolish was because he came out and defended the video saying it was fabricated instead of him to make a pubiC statement and diassociate himself from the statements made in the video and allow koro bear the blame alone with the consequences attached OR keep his mouth shut and make his ears deaf concerning the allegation.. He is the commander in Chief while Koro is an errand man that is a very big distinct between the both. Still with the allegations laid on top koro's head even though not yet declared guilty, he still went ahead to nominate him. Am wondering what he hopes to achieve by doing that. GEJ implicated himself and is damaging himself more.

Madamme allow dis thing enter front page now make people know the kind of person Obanikoro be.

Stupidity is when u charge ur phone with generator and still come here and say GEJ till 2019.

SHARIA REPORTERS

Apc supporters ar failures, I listened to d tape n honestly, d apc supporters ar making a storm out of a tea mug; even if d president sent obanikoro to ekiti cos of his party candidate, tell me wats wrong dia? Did u not listen to d part were fayose said dat fayemi n his stooges were sharing money? Did u listen to d part were sumone said fayemi pple were brandishing weapons? D tape exposed notin out of d ordinary except for naïve n biased pple tryin to use it to score cheap point.

Howeva, wat I find disturbing is d way General Momoh was intimidated n I tink it was cos of his sumwhat betrayal moves, he rubbished himsef totally.

The captain hu released d audio, wat was his motive? I smell blackmail, maybe sum one didn't get paid wat he expected n I trust fayose, he must av told dem to go fu*k dem sefs afta winning cos he felt d miltary were sabotaging his moves. Hence sum one got bittered n released d audio.

Lastly Obanikoro said notin wrong/ notin out of d ordinary except dat d general shud be allowed to go do his job n de shud stop kipin him dia n money shud be made available to him.

Shame on APC
Shame on Fayemi
Shame on Buhari.

GEJ till 2019.

chymystique:


You are not getting my point.Koro is saying the truth alright but am tryna say GEJ should ve denied him outrightly from the begining by making koro a liar and diassociating himself from him but instead he kept protecting him to the extent of nominating him and that's silly esp now he is seeking re-election

And do you think koro would take that lying down if it was the truth..... He would definitely strike back.
Besides gej already promised him a ministerial slot before the tape came out.

Swizdoe:

And do you think koro would take that lying down if it was the truth..... He would definitely strike back.
Besides gej already promised him a ministerial slot before the tape came out.

If the president had a brain, he should simply have said the DSS is looking into the matter and then ignored it. Then he could send Koro back to Ghana or somewhere more distant and remote. A few quiet threats and Koro will stay silent and drop all legal cases to avoid embarrassing the government.

#change
#GMB
#APC

omenka:
Nigeria is at the threshold of its redemption. It would take some galactic event to hold her back.

First they all completely denied any such meeting ever took place, and now they say yes it did but the purpose isn't really as reported. These are some of the guys that would sacrifice one of their children to ensure a Buhari never gets to Aso Rock; they know the implication of having someone as upright as the General at the helm of affairs.

but wetin we go do as apostle johnson suleiman talk say hiim no see buhari in aso rock even though he will win elections. say na soso khaki him vision de see and these generals no resemble patriots or even competent at all