The founder and publisher of Sahara
Reporter s Omoyele Sowore has
reacted to reports that he got a
$5million mansion located in
Atherton, California, from the
APC. Reacting to the report which
claimed that the mansion is one
of the many promises made to
Sowore by APC and has...
"...Everything a modern home
should have like swimming pool;
grand hall, with 15-foot ceilings
and marble floors, ideal for
dancing; French doors opening to
the veranda; dining room with a
rouge royale marble fireplace;
stained glass windows and a
crystal 12-branch chandelier; Red-
carpeted double mahogany
stairway, complemented by a
foliate motif stained glass window
on the landing; Wrap-around
veranda available for seasonal use
and Ample covered or outdoor
parking.
...Sow ore accused the presidency of
being behind the story and asked
president Jonathan to show the
world proof that he was given a
mansion by APC. See his reaction
as posted on SR after the cut
By Sowore, publisher of Sahara
Reporters
In the latest of many attempts at blackmailing
SaharaReporters into silence, a new (what else?)
website has concocted the story that the All
Progressives Congress (APC) bought and gave me
a mansion located in Atherton, California.
Everyone around the world knows that Nigerian
governments since 2006 have been trying to shut
down or shut up SaharaReporters. Technical efforts
to shut us down occur almost every week. Efforts to
shut us up are no less prevalent, and they include
blackmail from various directions.
The Atherton mansion claim, which was apparently
written by some handlers of President Goodluck
Jonathan, followed renewed attacks on the site
infrastructure during the summer. The well-oiled
and well-heeled team sent bots after our server
and crippled it for several days. Shortly after we
restored our services, that criminal team went on
Facebook to create several fake fan pages in our
name. It was only three weeks ago that we
succeeded in getting Facebook to take down the
biggest of those fan pages; by that time, it had
garnered over 14,000 likes.
In this latest attempt, Mr. Jonathan’s hit squad
seems to have gone berserk over an online poll
conducted by SaharaReporters, which showed that
he would be defeated by 75% if retired General
Muhammad Buhari, was pitched against him in the
2015 general election.
Following Mr. Jonathan’s declaration of intent
earlier this week, our team of reporters also
reported that a team affiliated with the Nigerian
ruler refused to pay several persons who had been
hired to pose as supporters during his presidential
declaration in Abuja. The presidency seems widely
embarrassed at the report that hordes of those in
attendance at what was supposed to be a massively-
supported declaration had in fact been hoodwinked
by his Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria
(TAN).
These reports and many others unveil the
government as tactless, clueless and corrupt, but
that is only because it is tactless, clueless and
corrupt. They are not manufactured, and unlike
some others, we have refused to be bought off the
task of reporting what we know.
The truth is that my team and I are beyond bribery
machineries. Mr. Jonathan’s foot soldiers, who
have repeatedly been sent to meet with us
individually with the promise of huge bribes can
attest to this. For those amazed by the latest
gossip about the $5m mansion bribe in the United
States, I challenge the writers to publicly provide
the verifiable address of the mansion in Atherton.
They should also go ahead and publish the real
estate documents that are associated with the
property, so that we can put the matter in the
hands of the law-enforcement authorities.
But we all know the truth: desperation.
It is desperation that is responsible for the
concoction of this $5 million mansion story, the
objective of which is to fool the simple-minded.
And we understand: the 2015 elections are
approaching. Time to buy off—or discourage—critics
and unfavorable reporting.
But we at SaharaReporters are not fickle fighters.
Nobody gave us a $5m home in 2009 when we were
at the hub of relentlessly reporting on the cabal in
Abuja that was preventing the Vice-President of
Nigeria from taking office when his boss was sick.
That VP was Goodluck Jonathan, and that is how
he became president. We reported only as we saw
fit, because we hold the constitution and the
democracy of Nigeria to be superior to any Nigerian,
including the President. When Mr. Jonathan
became Acting President, and then President, we
did not expect him to thank us either, even though
he sent one of his aides with loads of cash to New
York on a "thank you" tour.
We refused to meet with them on that occasion and
reminded them that we were merely doing our duty
in defense of Nigeria and her people.
It was not personal at that time. It is not personal
today.
That is why I again assure all supporters, readers
and fans of the multimedia platform known as
Sahara Reporters Media that we will continue to
expose the rot that is perpetuated and perpetrated
by the Jonathan government as long as that
character does not change. It is not personal.
B lackmail will not deter us from
doing right by our people. And
neither phantom mansions nor
private jets loaded with dollar bills
can buy us off this duty.
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