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Ekiti Kete,
I want to call the attention of the entire Ekiti people to an impish attempt by Honourable Dele Olugbemi to launch a smear campaign against my person in the media that he has given me money to be feeding him with information on the activities of the 19 APC members. He told some journalists in Ado-Ekiti that all the details of information he had revealed in the media so far on 19 APC members were supplied by me.
Let me tell Ekiti people that the last time Olugbemi can claim closeness to me was in South Africa in February 2012 during a capacity building training programme at the Gauteng Parliament in Johannesburg. He was the only member who refused to take accommodation in the hotel we lodged, preferring to save his money. He begged that I should allow him stay with me in my room with a promise that he would share the cost. I agreed but he never did. He also borrowed N500 rands from me with a promise to pay back before departing Johannesburg. Six months later in Nigeria, I was on Olugbemi’s neck to pay my money after which he made part-payment. Up till now, an elected honourable member is still owing a political appointee N5,000 and I have made up my mind not to ask him for the money again.
That is not even the issue that made me run away from Olugbemi in the House of Assembly. During a week staying with me in my hotel room in South Africa, he told me many terrible things about himself in Lagos, Osun, Ondo and Oyo states as member of OPC that made me believe that with Olugbemi as a friend, you don’t need any other enemy. From what he said, I knew a man very close to Olugbemi is digging a grave for himself.
Earlier as Metro Editor of Daily Independent, my metro reporters did stories on Olugbemi’s activities as a violent OPC member, including his activities as the leader of okada riders at Amuwo Odofin before other members revolted against him, forcing him to relocate to Ketu.
To my chagrin, Olugbemi told me some of these activities on which I already had information but which he never knew because I didn’t tell him I had information with records from the council chairman in Amuwo-Odofin area of the state as a metro editor. I couldn’t have told him during our room discussion because of terrible stories he told me about himself. Since then, I never had anything to do with him again.
The government of his boss in the past failed in its bid to bribe me with N5m in 2006 to abandon Action Congress and its leaders and work with PDP in the media. I raised the alarm in the media. Details of this episode are contained in my book, ‘PEN IN THE FURNACE’. Today, the man is looking for me, forcing me into hiding since the last 26 days. Yet, the man that has forced me out of my house is launching a scheme to make people believe that he has used Olugbemi to buy me over and that all information they have been giving on APC lawmakers came from me. I wonder why I did not give them information that the authentic Ekiti State House of Assembly would be holding its plenary in Ado-Ekiti last Thursday, which produced the resolutions to the National Assembly as Ekiti State contributions to the constitutional amendment process.
I am giving this background information on my relationship with Olugbemi so that Ekiti people can read between the lines and know the kind of human being they are dealing with in Olugbemi. I am also writing to call the attention of Ekiti people that when I respond in kind, nobody should accuse me of personal attack on Olugbemi when I put him in the media detailing all his alleged criminal activities in Lagos, Osun, Oyo and Ondo states, including the ones he committed as a member of Ekiti State House of Assembly.
In the main, I am pleading that nobody should blame me for personal attack on Olugbemi when he finally makes up his mind to stir the hornets’ nest.
Wole Olujobi
