The man facing major allegations is speaking out for the
first time. Ever since Sugabelly ‘s harrowing story of abuse,
rape and manipulation broke, there has been no official
word from the other side.
In this exclusive interview, Publisher of SIGNAL , Ohimai
Amaize and Editor of SIGNAL, Yemi Adebowale which took
place in Asokoro, he tells his side of the story.


Who is ‘Sugabelly’ to you?

Lotanna (Editor’s Note: It is BN’s policy not to reveal names of
rape victims unless they waive anonymity which Sugabelly did
via her blogpost on the incidents ) as her real name is called,
is someone who we were colleagues together while I was
serving at an IT firm in Abuja called Alteq. She was a staff
at Alteq. We were colleagues for a while and at some point
we dated for about two months. I came back to Nigeria in
2006, and it was at Alteq I first met her. I’m not sure how
long she had worked there before I came to the company
for my NYSC. It was a long time ago. I was about 24 then.
We talked like every other person. There was a time she had
a party for the office, I thought it was a party for the office
but it was her birthday party, her 18th birthday party. It was
in March of that year. I didn’t go for it. I usually don’t go to
office parties. I had another business. I was working at my
company and at the IT firm as well. So one day at the office
she came to me and harassed me that I missed her party
and I said, oh, don’t worry I will make it up to you. I will take
you out for sharwarma and I took her to 212; then they used
to sell sharwarma. This was the first time I took her out.
There are emails to corroborate this. From then on we
started talking. She was a very interesting personality. She
is very brilliant and she reads a lot of books. I read a lot of
books too and I don’t meet people who read a lot of book. I
used to read a lot of fantasy books. All these Game of
Thrones people are watching as movies now, I read them as
books like ten years ago. Knights of Shallaman, Wheel of
Time, Lord of the Rings, Inheritance Cycle, many many
books I read years ago and there were very few people who
knew these things. She was one of them. She read a lot and
she wrote. She was a very brilliant writer; in fact, I think that
was why she was working as someone’s secretary at the
office. She used to write a lot of letters for the company.
Claims have emerged from her that as at January of 2007 I
was in a relationship with her and doing all sorts of wicked
things to her. Just like now, in December, precisely
December 17, 2006, I lost my mum. I was in the UK. I
watched my mum die. I loved my mum. I brought her body
back to Nigeria, so just like now I was going through a
period of grief. So it wasn’t possible all the things she is
claiming that I did. I would be mourning.


How long did your relationship (affair) with her last?

Our relationship lasted like a month and a half. Not even up
to two months. I found out she was sleeping with my
friends. She slept with a couple of my friends. I discovered
and told her about it. She told me she loved me, she wanted
to marry me and was madly and deeply in love with me. And
I told her it’s not possible, we can’t get married because I
am not at the stage where I wanted to be married. And
you’ve had something to do with my friends, so the
relationship ended. While we were in the relationship, she
had told me things about her mum, that she hated her mum,
her mum wasn’t there for her and stuff like that. She sent
me an email once making reference to her having visions of
violent rape the first time that we had something physically.
She said she had visions of violent rape from a past
memory and that we weren’t close enough for her to tell me
the details. On one occasion then when we spoke on the
phone, she said I shouldn’t abandon her, and then she told
me that her mum’s boyfriend raped her. She said a lot of
negative things about her mum. This was part of the reason
I didn’t want to release these emails to protect her.
But the main reason I am doing this is because I got a call
today, someone told me that her friends disclosed that
she’s being planning this for while, she is actually writing a
book and planning to finish a book, she wants to start an
NGO, she wants to appeal to the US government about
surviving rape in Africa and she wants to use my family,
because of my family’s political name to get traction. I
heard she is getting influential people involved, I hear she
has involved the lady behind the Bring Back Our Girls
campaign, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili. Dr. Ezekwesili reminds me of
my mum. She reminds me of someone who should have
been my mum and if someone said something about your
son, you shouldn’t immediately go to the world and say “Oh,
you are this or that.” At least call your son, hear him out.
And this is not even about me wanting to say anything to
defend myself.

Please read the communication between me and this girl.
Everytime I sent her a message, it was always about “How
are you doing? Hope you are doing okay? Don’t be too
nasty in college. But I know you are very smart and you will
do well.” Even in the emails, I mentioned that I encouraged
her. She even sent me a message on Facebook apologizing
for flirting with my friends, how she loves me and I told her,
it’s okay. It’s not the end of the world. And now, people are
saying I’m such a beast and I’m such a monster. You didn’t
even talk to me. You didn’t even ask me… These things are
so horrific. What kind of person can actually do these
things? Not only did I do that and I did it with my younger
brother that was just 15 back then? I did that with my older
brother who was about 30 years old then? And this older
brother is not my immediate older brother. He is two
brothers ahead of me. Then my cousin? Then my friends?
Then the Nigeria Police Force? This is such a movie.


How is your family reacting to this?

Of course it’s very hard. We are mourning. She’s been
releasing these this for a while. She’s been doing this for a
while but my family has kept quiet all along because we
know the truth. Yes, some of my family members are really
shaken right now. We are grieving. I have just been
orphaned. I loved my dad. My dad is a hero. Anybody from
Kogi State knows that. Look at his burial. How many people
have received his burial? Look at the whole country? If we
were such wicked people, if my dad was a monster, would
people react? There was a rumour that my dad had risen. If
you saw the people the way they were praying and rejoicing.
And now this girl has used this unfortunate incident to
capitalize in painting my family as evil…



How long have you been married?

I have been married for like six years now. I got married
December 15, 2009. And that was when my problem with
her really started; when she found out I got married.
Have you ever raped anyone?
Come on, why would I do that? It doesn’t make any sense
whatsoever. I can never and will never support such heinous
act. Come on! It’s not even a question you ask a normal
person. It’s like asking, have you committed murder before?
Because it’s such an inhuman thing! And I understand why
people would do this and she’s brilliant. Because she knows
human beings are emotional and sentimental. Play on their
intelligence. Play on the fact that women have been raped
before and for us men, we hardly speak up. I am not saying
men are angels. I’m not saying I am an angel. But I have
never raped anyone in my life before. I am happily married.
I have three little daughters. I can’t even imagine it. God!
You know what? I am going to step out for those who have
been accused falsely. There are a lot of people who have
been falsely accused. You know, because of my last name, I am fortunate to have the opportunity to speak up. You see, people don’t even need to hear me speak. Just read the conversation I had with this lady and you can read her blog.
It’s just a blog. You can compare the two. In my email
conversations with her, you can tell that I have genuine
feelings for her and she has genuine feelings for me. We are communicating as human beings. Then you read this blog
and it’s something else. In her mails to me, you will read her
asking about me, my brothers, my friends, my cousins,
telling me how she knows that I’m so hardworking and that
I’m a good person. I don’t understand how that translates to a blog that says I was such a terrorist.


What do you think she wants from you?

It’s fame. It’s simple. Fame. She has skills and in her heart,
she’s found out that you know what? My blog isn’t really
getting a lot of traction, I’ve been working on this story, I’ve
been writing a book, so let me put out this story first. First,
she got some Twitter people to put it up, when that didn’t
get as much traction, she resorted to this. That was the
groundwork for this. Now she has put this on her blog and
everybody is going to her blog, she is about to launch a
book on surviving rape in Africa; all of this is some sort of
elaborate plan to make money and fame to the detriment of
someone who hasn’t done anything to her. Whatever it is
that’s bothering her, I think her mum should speak to her.
Her mum honestly needs to speak to her. Her being in the
US and being away might not be the best solution. She
should actually have a sit down. What is bothering her? She
told me she hates her mum, that her mum’s boyfriend raped her. Let her talk to her mum about that.

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SOURCE: www.bellanaija.com/2015/11/28/mustapha-audu-tells-his-side-of-the-sugabelly-story-in-interview-with-signalng/

Seriously?

U re an alleged rapist
Datz all u ve to say to exonerate urself?
I'm shocked
I was expecting revealing revelations
All u said was crap.
U were accused of raping and gang rape. Ur job was refute with evidence
It isn't ur job to protect sugabelly anymore.
Reveal emails exonerating u

hahahahaha....sorry bro. I think you will go down for this. Bringing your dead mum into this and trying to portray her brilliance is just being plain manipulative and trying to gain sympathy just wont work. Did you or did you not rape her at some point? Did u or did you not expose her to abuse by your peers or not? Did you or did you not take advantage of her? Just come out and refute her claims with evidence thats all.

E-diot,so when you discovered that she slept with your friends,you decide to arranged for her rape to punished her abi?
All these crap about read this book or that book can not save your family name,one thing is sure,you and your brothers are rapists,accept it,a 17yr old girl planning to further her education abroad want you to marry her in a relationship that last less than two months,do you think she is a muslim?
May God punish you!

F22RAPTOR:
hahahahaha....sorry bro. I think you will go down for this. Bringing your dead mum into this and trying to portray her brilliance is just being plain manipulative and trying to gain sympathy just wont work. Did you or did you not rape her at some point? Did u or did you not expose her to abuse by your peers or not? Did you or did you not take advantage of her? Just come out and refute her claims with evidence thats all.

Don't mind the e-diot.

Toktee:
E-diot,so when you discovered that she slept with your friends,you decide to arranged for her rape to punished her abi?
All these crap about read this book or that book can not save your family name,one thing is sure,you and your brothers are rapists,accept it,a 17yr old girl planning to further her education abroad want you to marry her in a relationship that last less than two months,do you think she is a muslim?
May God punish you!

Bruv, why are you bringing religion into this
Its so uncalled for

Neemcie:


Bruv, why are you bringing religion into this
Its so uncalled for

Iam angry,why must he lied that,a xtian girl of 17yrs asked him to marry her?

Toktee:
Iam angry,why must he lied that,a xtian girl of 17yrs asked him to marry her?

Tsk

Something tell me that girl just looking for fame at someone expense,audu has been out of power for 12 years all the while where has she been.

I don't know if it is rape or not,all I know is that they both fvcked each other!

I don't know if it is rape or not,all I know is that they both fvcked each other!.