The founder and publisher of Sahara
Reporters 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.
Blackmail 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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