Contrary to earlier denials, embattled ministerial nominee, Musiliu Obanikoro, has confessed to several Senators in Abuja that he did participate in an election-eve meeting in Ekiti in June 2014 in which a group of politicians and government ministers met with a Nigerian army general to rig the governorship election in favor of Ayodele Fayose, the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

The meeting, which is now known as “Ekitigate”, was secretly taped by an army captain who was subsequently forced to flee for his life.

Despite the scandal, President Jonathan went ahead to nominate Obanikoro into his cabinet for the second time, and the nominee is lobbying the Senators to give him a pass during his upcoming nomination hearing.  It is in the process that he has confessed to some of them that he was indeed present at the rigging meeting in Akure, on behalf of the President, to ensure that everything went smoothly.

Obanikoro’s story is that he was simply making “peace” between the army and Ayo Fayose at the meeting, claiming that he was not party to any conversation about rigging.  On the contrary, Obanikoro, who was at the time junior Minister for Defence, is overheard clearly on the tape bragging about the authority granted him by President Jonathan.

Prior to admitting his involvement to the Senators, the former minister met with President Jonathan to discuss the tape and his role. A presidency source said Obanikoro told President Jonathan he was present at the meeting but that a part of the audio-recording was “doctored”. 

They said President Jonathan had called him to the meeting to discuss how to mitigate the damage created by the leaked tape.  He told the Senators categorically that it was Jonathan himself who had sent him to Ekiti to help Fayose win the election.  On the tape, Obanikoro says, at least twice, that he is on a “mission” for the President. 

He also reportedly told President Jonathan at their meeting that he had asked his US-based lawyers to do a separate voice analysis of the tape and that the lawyers came back with “proof” that certain aspects of the tape had been doctored by SaharaReporters to make the regime look bad.  Counting on that assurance, President Jonathan told a team of reporters from the Wall Street Journal during an interview that the tapes were not real and that he would not investigate the incident.

Obanikoro also told President Jonathan that his US-based lawyers had assured him that they could file some cases against SaharaReporters in the US to “teach SaharaReporters and its publisher, Omoyele Sowore” a lesson. He explained to the president that with enough financial support, his lawyers would file the case and also employ private detectives to take down SaharaReporters. President Jonathan reportedly nodded at the idea, and asked Obanikoro not to worry.

Following that meeting, the former Minister began a series of legal threats last week claiming to have sued SaharaReporters, as well as The Punch newspaper and Premium Times, both in Lagos.  Up until now, those newspapers are yet to be served copies of the lawsuit.

On Tuesday night, Obanikoro, who is also a US citizen, assured some of the Senators that his US lawyers had already filed the libel suit against SaharaReporters in New York.

On Wednesday, Obanikoro deployed a small rented a crowd of protesters to hold placards in front of the National Assembly to denounce the All Progressives Congress.

It is to be noted that two other key participants at the meeting, Police Minister Jelili Adesiyan and Ayo Fayose, the beneficiary of the Ekiti governorship rigging, have admitted that they were at the meeting that was taped by the army captain.

For Obanikoro’s role in the rigging of the election, APC has advocated his being banned from holding any public office, and asked the Senate not to confirm him.  Mr. Jonathan is known to have re-nominated Obanikor as his prize for stepping down from the PDP governorship race in Lagos. 


http://saharareporters.com/2015/02/18/ministerial-nominee-obanikoro-confesses-he-was-ekiti-rigging-meeting-says-jonathan-sent

Lol.

So nigerians still call His Excellency 'President'.

We have none.

Sahara they america, they detect everything wey they happen inside person room 4 naija

Weda mumuliu or okpaniokoro
Gej till 2019
Gburugburu till 2023

Oga jona,nawa4u o.btw even without rigging fayose would win the election

Booked

Cheap Propaganda

GEJ/PDP must go ASAP!!!

what nonsense is this!!!

The Lion claims to be the king of the jungle just as gej claims to have nigeria & nigerians in his grasp, but when the jungle is on fire, the Lion will be on the run... Tanoids, pls tell your ogogoro master to accept his defeat jejeli...

ok na

APC SHOULD GO TO COURT AND TENDER THEIR EVIDENCE AGAINST THE ELECTION.
FOR NOW, THE HARAMITES PARTY APC SHOULD DO THE NEEDFUL, SHUT UP FOREVER.

even though he said the truth........nothing can be done to it

under oga jona

we just need change


meanwhil GMB2015............#TEAMCHANGE#

For me whether the tape was real or not, they did not discuss stuffing ballot boxes. They only planned to stop APC guys who were equally coming to 'influence' the elections. we all know then that Amaechi and Co. were stopped. Every Party rigs but you must have some level of support for you to succeed and even from the results it shows that without rigging Fayose will win.

Hopefully GEJ will Confess too

We know he sponsors terrorism

How we know?



jonathan the real sponsor of boko haram

evidence-: presidential media

journalist-: did you think the abducted chibok girls will return alive

jonathan-: of course we'll recover them alive THERE IS NO PLAN TO KILL THE GIRLS

HE MISTAKENLY REVEAL THE PLAN THEY MAKE SECRETLY





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpZmGtSvbLk

Quoting, the finance minister '...this country lacks the capacity to fight corruption....', let me tell u that, corruption, feeds on archivements and progress....andraising a finger against it, is what Gej has never done...due to fear of the unknwn... I've always said that d person that will save Ngeria is someone from the past, the grand god-father, of the numerous god-fathers who have bn dectating d actions of the presidency.....Let me just stop here...b4 i vex..GMB IS JUST, THE RIGHT DUDE FOR THIS JOB, BELIEVE IT OR NOT!!

DaBullIT:
Hopefully GEJ will Confess too
We know he sponsors terrorism
How we know?
jonathan the real sponsor of boko haram
evidence-: presidential media
journalist-: did you think the abducted chibok girls will return alive
jonathan-: of course we'll recover them alive THERE IS NO PLAN TO KILL THE GIRLS
HE MISTAKENLY REVEAL THE PLAN THEY MAKE SECRETLY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpZmGtSvbLk

hmmmmm..... It is well Nigeria

nesta007:
Contrary to earlier denials, embattled ministerial nominee, Musiliu Obanikoro, has confessed to several Senators in Abuja that he did participate in an election-eve meeting in Ekiti in June 2014 in which a group of politicians and government ministers met with a Nigerian army general [s]to rig the governorship election in favor of Ayodele Fayose[/s], the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

it is yet to be proved that there was rigging debate ensued in the conversation except 'super imposition of forceful statements by the APC' so it is nulled

The meeting, which is now known as “Ekitigate”, was secretly taped by an army captain who was subsequently forced to flee for his life.

who named it Ekitigate? you can see now that a desperate attempt to elevate a non issue as one makes that assertion 'Ekitigate' when nothing has been established yet!Both Fayose and Obanikoro has clarified their utterances and there was not even a mention of the word 'rig' or 'rigging' uttered by both Fayose and Obanikoro in the said tape which further rubishes the claims of the laughable 'Ekitigate strawman Title'

Despite the scandal, President Jonathan went ahead to nominate Obanikoro into his cabinet for the second time, and the nominee is lobbying the Senators to give him a pass during his upcoming nomination hearing.  It is in the process that he has confessed to some of them that he was indeed present at the rigging meeting in Akure, on behalf of the President, to ensure that everything went smoothly.

Obanikoro did not even mention the word 'rig' or 'rigging' neither was it mention in the alledged tape that 'welcome to the rigging meeting' or 'Guys our meeting here is purely to rig' so anything outside these ''primary-indicting-statements-not-mentioned-as-stated-in-the-quotes-here'' amounts to 'forcefull assertion and open the alldged 'audio meeting' to all sorts of forcefull assertions as 'imposition or fabrications' which amounts to nothing because the alledged audio lacked important substances that can stand court trials, it is filled with many holes, the army man has done a shabby job.

Obanikoro’s story is that he was simply making “peace” between the army and Ayo Fayose at the meeting, claiming that he was not party to any conversation about rigging.  On the contrary, Obanikoro, who was at the time junior Minister for Defence, is overheard clearly on the tape bragging about the authority granted him by President Jonathan.

''bragging about the authority granted him by President Jonathan'' but unfortunately there was no mention of ''Authority to rig, pervert or change anything! now that obanikoro has denied rigging role, onus of proof lies on the alledged Audio maker to further come out with more indicting evidence as this one did not prove anything!

Prior to admitting his involvement to the Senators, the former minister met with President Jonathan to discuss the tape and his role. A presidency source said Obanikoro told President Jonathan he was present at the meeting but that a part of the audio-recording was “doctored”. 

[size=14pt]part of the audio-recording was “doctored”[/size] this statement is yet to be denied till now, especially where Tinubu's name was alledgedly mentioned, sahara reporters 'refused to translate that part' and it was edited out fast the full conversation that actually culminate the mention of Tinubu in that alledged tape
The alledged tape was Altered, ......Alteration on result certificate...renders same(certificate) invalid! the accused have the right to deny an invalid tape

They said President Jonathan had called him to the meeting to discuss how to mitigate the damage created by the leaked tape.
He told the Senators categorically that it was Jonathan himself who had sent him to Ekiti to help Fayose win the election.
On the tape, Obanikoro says, at least twice, that he is on a “mission” for the President. 

is there anything wrong with the statement of being sent on a 'mission'?

1, Obanikoro, Fayose and Jonathan are PDP menbers with a common vission to win election

the same way
2, Lai mohamed, Rauf Aregbesola and Bola Tinubu are all with common 'mission' to win election when Lai Mohamed was caught roaming the oshogbo at midnight from one meeting to another, he told the DSS that he was on a party mission and was subsequently released

i dont think the DSS make a meal out of that!

He also reportedly told President Jonathan at their meeting that he had asked his US-based lawyers to do a separate voice analysis of the tape and that the lawyers came back with “proof” that certain aspects of the tape had been doctored by SaharaReporters to make the regime look bad.  Counting on that assurance, President Jonathan told a team of reporters from the Wall Street Journal during an interview that the tapes were not real and that he would not investigate the incident.

Obanikoro also told President Jonathan that his US-based lawyers had assured him that they could file some cases against SaharaReporters in the US to “teach SaharaReporters and its publisher, Omoyele Sowore” a lesson. He explained to the president that with enough financial support, his lawyers would file the case and also employ private detectives to take down SaharaReporters. President Jonathan reportedly nodded at the idea, and asked Obanikoro not to worry.

Following that meeting, the former Minister began a series of legal threats last week claiming to have sued SaharaReporters, as well as The Punch newspaper and Premium Times, both in Lagos.  Up until now, those newspapers are yet to be served copies of the lawsuit.

On Tuesday night, Obanikoro, who is also a US citizen, assured some of the Senators that his US lawyers had already filed the libel suit against SaharaReporters in New York.

On Wednesday, Obanikoro deployed a small rented a crowd of protesters to hold placards in front of the National Assembly to denounce the All Progressives Congress.

It is to be noted that two other key participants at the meeting, Police Minister Jelili Adesiyan and Ayo Fayose, [s]the beneficiary of the Ekiti governorship rigging, have admitted that they were at the meeting that was taped by the army captain.[/s]

For [s]Obanikoro’s role in the rigging of the election[/s], APC has advocated his being banned from holding any public office, and asked the Senate not to confirm him.  Mr. Jonathan is known to have re-nominated Obanikor as his prize for stepping down from the PDP governorship race in Lagos. 

the thread below answers that

Rivers and lagos tax payers money at work
Let me see that never do well entity that will tell me saharareporters are doing it free of charge