Blogger and social media influencer, Japheth Omojuwa, has
said the then All Progressives Congress candidate in the 2015 presidential
election, Muhammadu Buhari, was expected to appoint a former Minister of
Education, Oby Ezekwesili, as a member of his cabinet.
The blogger also disclosed that Ezekwesili played some role
during the 2015 electioneering because of the expectation that she would be
made a minister in Buhari’s cabinet but the President did not appoint the
ex-minister as a member of his cabinet when he assumed office.
Omojuwa, who said he has a 10-year relationship with the
former minister beginning from 2012, stated this in a letter written by his
lawyer, Boonyameen Lawal of Babalakin & Co Legal Practitioners.
The letter dated April 14, 2021 was titled, ‘Demand For Full
Disclosure And Public Apology By Mrs Obiageli Ezekwesili In Respect Of Alpha
Reach Ltd’.
Ezekwesili had threatened to sue
Omojuwa for alleged impersonation.
The former minister had expressed shock that she was listed
as a director in Omojuwa’s media firm, Alpha Reach.
The revelation was made in a report by a foreign medium,
BuzzFeed, which had exposed the role Omojuwa and other influencers allegedly
played in the social media campaign for the release of alleged fraudster, Alex
Saab, a Colombian who has been declared wanted in the United States and is
facing extradition charges in Cape Verde.
Documents circulating online show that Omojuwa’s company,
which was registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission in 2012, has Kaduna
State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, and Ezekwesili as directors.
The company, Alpha Reach, is believed to have played an
active role in the campaign #FreeAlexSaab.
But in the letter through his lawyer, Omojuwa said he sought
Ezekwesili’s consent before he listed her as a director in his company.
The letter partly read, “Our client (Omojuwa) sought and
obtained your client’s (Ezekwesili’s) consent before listing her as a Director
of the company, based on their close relationship.”
The blogger said both El-Rufai and Ezekwesili were removed
as directors of Alpha Reach Company in 2015 because it was sure that El-Rufai
would become governor of Kaduna State and Ezekwesili would be appointed a
minister in the regime of the President.
“It was not until 2015 when it was certain that HE Mallam
El-Rufai was going to become the Governor of Kaduna State and the likelihood
that your client (Ezekwesili) could be appointed a Minister by the then
President-elect Muhammadu Buhari GCFR, that they were both removed as Directors
of the company.
“You might recall that your client (Ezekwesili) honoured the
ruling party’s (APC) invitation to deliver a keynote speech at a public forum
in Abuja in 2014, and there was a general expectation that she would play a
role in President Buhari’s government. Indeed, your client (Ezekwesili) leaned
on our client (Omojuwa) to publish and distribute her speech at the APC forum,”
the letter read.
Omojuwa further said the ex-minister told him in 2012 to
“pull in your brother(s), Chine and Chuba (Ezekwesili’s biological sons) into
what you do from now on.”
The blogger described Ezekwesili as a benefactor who “took
him under her wings and even assisted in paying part of his rent in Abuja in
2012”. He, however, said his relationship with the ex-minister deteriorated
because he is no longer the “impressionable boy” who can be controlled to fight
social media wars by proxy.
Omojuwa concluded the letter by stating that he would only
make the documents requested by Ezekwesili available if she writes an
undertaken that the documents would be treated with utmost confidentiality.
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