‘Face Your Scamming Past, Not Imaginary Assassins’ Wike’s Aide, Lere Olayinka Hits Back At Sowore
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ABUJA – Lere Olayinka, Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Barr. Nyesom Wike, has dismissed allegations by SaharaReporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore, that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Wike were plotting to assassinate him.
In a statement issued on Saturday, Olayinka described Sowore as a “self-appointed activist haunted by the repercussions of his life of scams,” insisting that the activist’s claims were nothing more than “mind games to sustain his fraudulent lifestyle.”
He said, “If there is any threat to Sowore’s life, it must be from those he has scammed or blackmailed. He should leave President Tinubu and the FCT Minister out of the impending repercussions of his life of scams.”
Olayinka accused Sowore of serial corruption and exploitation, citing alleged incidents ranging from pocketing grants during the #EndSARS protests to mismanaging millions of dollars received from foreign donors under the guise of training journalists.
“This is the same Sowore who, in 2019, collected over $3 million to sell the governorship ticket of the African Action Congress (AAC) in Rivers State and was suspended by his party for corruption. In 2020, he was also accused by Oluwatosin Adeniji of diverting an #EndSARS grant he applied for on her behalf without her consent,” Olayinka alleged.
He further claimed that Sowore has a history of using SaharaReporters for blackmail and extortion while keeping his staff in “abject poverty.”
According to the Minister’s aide, Sowore’s recent attacks on Wike over alleged property ownership in the United States were nothing more than “the last kick of a dying horse.”
“Did the Minister deny that his wife has properties in the US? Is it an offense to own properties through inheritance or purchase? Is that Sowore’s defense for publishing outright falsehood, calling the President a criminal, or engaging in Yahoo Yahoo with foreign donor funds?” Olayinka queried.
He concluded that Sowore, already battling serious charges, was running out of tricks: “All the noise he has been making about Wike in the last 48 hours is just to present himself as a victim. But soon, he will get to the end of his scamming wit.”
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