Many Kogi State indigenes, under the auspices of Kogi Indigenes Collective Interest Group, have risen in fervent defence of their Governor over what they called “unfounded and irresponsible allegation by an equally irresponsible fake news peddler whose stock-in-trade is either to blackmail for clout or cash” in their response to a tweet by one Jackson Ude who is alleging that Governor Yahaya Bello bribed election tribunal Judges to influence them against the cases of Natasha Uduaghan of the PDP, one Tajudeen Yusuf and Victor Adoji.
The statement reads
“It has just come to our notice that a notorious blackmailer on social media has released another unfounded and irresponsible allegation by an equally irresponsible fake news peddler whose stock-in-trade is either to blackmail for clout or cash.
“Jackson Ude is notorious for raising absolutely unfounded allegations with a view to blackmailing politically exposed persons because he is a hireling of failed politicians who are desperate to use all foul tactics to secure whatever they are after.
“Mrs. Natasha Uduaghan and the two others, knowing that they do not stand a chance at the tribunal decided to recruit a certain Jackson Ude who is a well-known peddler of fake news to publish a laughable fiction with the mechanism of fake news claiming that our amiable Governor Yahaya Bello bribed tribunal judges with N300mn to compromise them. Jackson Ude must provide indubitable evidence of his satanic allegations or be prepared to go to jail for a very long time as we will spare no legal means to commit him to prison for his crimes
“Our intervention has become incumbent due to the fact that, in his characteristic good nature, Governor Yahaya Bello may just shrug it off and overlook what this fake news criminal has done to him and allow him go scott-free. But we, as patriotic indigenes of this blessed state, won’t allow that to happen. We will fight to defend the integrity of our state by protecting our Governor from a social media rogue who misuses his page for criminal libel and blackmail.
“We are giving Jackson Ude an 8-day ultimatum to produce concrete and indubitable evidence of his spurious allegation or be prepared to have his day in court. A colleague of his in the business of social media criminality who blackmailed the celebrity Eniola Badmus just got sent to three years in jail. Jackson Ude should prepare to join her soon because that’s why criminal political jobbers like him belong.
“When people know they are about to lose an election or that they have lost it, they procure senseless political jobbers like Jackson Ude to do their dirty jobs for them. But this one’s luck has finally run out as all Kogi indigenes have decided to rise up in unison to end the career of this trash man who pollutes the social media with ridiculous, reckless, senseless and wanton fallacy with criminal intent.”
