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Simbi Wabote Offered Me N10M To Implicate Jackson Ude, Timi Frank- TrackNews Publisher, Ogidi Reveals

Posted on February 8, 2022

Simbi Wabote Offered Me N10M To Implicate Jackson Ude.

By Daniel Dafe

Publisher, TrackNews, Bara Ogidi, has reacted to a publication by Premium Times and Chronicle NG that alleged that the publisher of Pointblanknews.com, Mr. Jackson Ude and former spokesman of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Mr Timi Frank used him to blackmail and attempted to extort money from the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, Simbi Wabote,, saying that they are “concoctions are lies sponsored by Wabote to further his defamation case against Mr Ude.”

Simbi Wabote Offered Me N10M
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In a statement signed by the publisher on Tuesday, he added: “To set the records straight, I have never met or communicated to Mr Ude or anyone from Pointblanknews.com. I was never sent by neither Ude or Frank to meet or speak with Wabote.

“I had a personal conversations with Wabote and any demand I made at the time for which I regretted are all personal and not with the instructions of anyone.
It is simply disingenuous for Wabote to now seek to use my personal conversations with him to score cheap legal goals, discredit and blackmail people.”

According to the statement, “Timi Frank and Jackson Ude never sent me to Wabote. Nowhere in my phone record would anyone find any conversations between either me and Timi Frank or Jackson Ude where any demand or issues with Wabote or anyone was discussed. It is all lies from the pit of hell!”

“Wabote’s problems with me started when he asked me to appear as a witness for him over the defamation case against Mr Ude. I refused. Next thing, he sent some people to me in my Yenagoa home at about 10pm in the evening offering me N10million to appear as a witness to corroborate his claims that he is being blackmailed by Ude and Frank. I told the people he sent I would never do that since that was not the case,” he said.

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My attention has been drawn to a publications in both Premium Times and one other news blog called Chronicle NG, wherein they insinuated that the publisher of Pointblanknews.com, Mr. Jackson Ude and former spokesman of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Mr Timi Frank used me to blackmail and attempted to extort money from the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, Simbi Wabote.

I like to state categorically those concoctions are lies sponsored by Wabote to further his defamation case against Mr Ude.

To set the records straight, I have never met or communicated to Mr Ude or anyone from Pointblanknews.com. I was never sent by neither Ude or Frank to meet or speak with Wabote.

I had a personal conversations with Wabote and any demand I made at the time for which I regretted are all personal and not with the instructions of anyone.
It is simply disingenuous for Wabote to now seek to use my personal conversations with him to score cheap legal goals, discredit and blackmail people.

Timi Frank and Jackson Ude never sent me to Wabote. Nowhere in my phone record would anyone find any conversations between either me and Timi Frank or Jackson Ude where any demand or issues with Wabote or anyone was discussed. It is all lies from the pit of hell!

Wabote’s problems with me started when he asked me to appear as a witness for him over the defamation case against Mr Ude. I refused. Next thing, he sent some people to me in my Yenagoa home at about 10pm in the evening offering me N10million to appear as a witness to corroborate his claims that he is being blackmailed by Ude and Frank. I told the people he sent I would never do that since that was not the case.

He then without my knowledge or consent, added my private chats with him in his U.S Court filings, claiming blackmail and attempt to extort him. It is all a lie and a ploy by Wabote to beef up his case which he is struggling to prove in the U.S Court.

After I refused to back him up and instead tendered an apology to Mr Ude who who knew nothing about my conversations with Wabote, Wabote and the Minister of State, Petroleum, Timipre Sylva, used the DSS to arrest me. I was detained for 48hrs by the DSS in Yenogoa for no reason. Till date, nobody has told me my offence or offences.

My life has been in danger, I have been in hiding since I was released from the DSS detention. I have been receiving threat calls from unknown numbers who are accusing me of trying to bring a fellow Ijaw man down.

I run a news blog and most times cull up stories from different websites. I culled up the story that brought about the defamation against Mr Ude from Pointblanknews. I didn’t do that for pecuniary gains. Although I contacted Simbi Wabote on a personal level as an Ijaw man. I regret that decision. Simbi Wabote should please leave me alone and stop using my conversations with him to attack people.

He should face the defamation case and allow the law to prevail. He should also continue to provide answers in the ongoing Senate investigations on the issue he is claiming defamation for.

Seeking to use me after his failed attempt to lure me with N10million to support him in his defamation case will never work. I am speaking up now that I am still alive. I don’t know what his antics would be next. If anything happens to me and my family, the world should hold Simbi Wabote, his leader and his proxies responsible. I will continue to defend myself and those he is seeking to bring down in this matter.

Bara Ogidi
Publisher, TrackNews

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