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General News of Wednesday, 22 July 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Sowore dares Garba Shehu to release tapes of Funtua's visit

Omoyele Sowore Omoyele Sowore

Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore has dared presidential aide, Garba Shehu, to release the tape of the meeting he had in detention with late Isa Funtua.

Garba Shehu had threatened to release the tape after Sowore revealed that Funtua who died a few days ago had tried to tell him to abandon his call for revolution in Nigeria.

The presidential aide also said that Sowore agreed to abandon the revolution contrary to his claim that he never agreed to such.

In response, Sowore urged Garba Shehu to release the tape and also another which he claims will show that the late Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, wanted him to remain in detention till 2023.

Sowore wrote, “I urge you to release the tape, but don’t forget to release tapes of conversations between COS Abba Kyari and DSS DG asking that my detention should last for the duration of the Buhari regime in 2023 because Sahara Reporters did a report that revealed that he collected N500m from MTN.

“Why can’t you be honest for once in your life, when you came to meet me in detention what was your intention, what would have constituted the conditions for my release? Who would have ordered my release, Isa Funtua? What powers did Funtua have to get me released?

“My insistence then got Isa Funtua riled and he said that my lawyer was only grandstanding and that he too had been imprisoned by Buhari in 1983 and that no one can defeat the government. Your wicked self kept quiet but Nduka noticing I was upset took me to the DO’s anteroom

“When I arrived downstairs I made a telephone call to my lawyer, Femi Falana, in the presence of the DSS officials telling him that I do not want to negotiate my freedom and that when he meets your team he should restate my position, he did exactly that, your team got upset again.”