Lagos-based newspaper 234Next has just published stunning details from a Wikileaks cable in which Speaker Dimeji Bankole of the House of Representatives reveals how the Umaru Yar’Adua regime bribed justices of the Supreme Court to validate the fraudulent 2007 presidential polls. In the cable, citing information given to American authorities by the speaker, Mr. Bankole also made startling revelations about former Attorney General Michael Aondoakaa, former Governor James Ibori of Delta, how the PDP stole the 2009 governorship rerun in Ekiti, and how the EFCC was being run.

SaharaReporters had already extensively reported some of the details in the cable, including the massive bribery of justices of the Supreme Court, the nexus of corruption featuring Mr. Aondoakaa, Mr. Ibori and EFCC chairperson Farida Waziri, and the PDP’s scheme both to blackmail Ekiti electoral commissioner Ayoka Adebayo as well as to steal the rerun gubernatorial election.

A source close to Speaker Bankole told SaharaReporters late today that the speaker planned to issue a “strong denial” of the latest Wikileaks details in which he features as the main source of cable information. Asked what the plank of the denial would be, the source said Mr. Bankole’s statement would point out that 234Next had, in an earlier report based on another wikileaks cable, given the erroneous impression that Goodluck Jonathan had voted multiple times in a governorship election in Edo State. The office of Governor Adams Oshiomole of Edo has since clarified that the “Vice President” named in the Wikileaks cable was Augustus Aikhomu, a deputy to former dictator Ibrahim Babangida.

“This one [the wikileaks cable] is bad for oga, but we’ll issue a strong denial,” said the source.

Below are the wikileaks revelations just published by 234Next:

[ID:205795 Cable dated:2009-05-06T17:57:00]

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Read here

http://www.saharareporters.com/news-page/wikileaks-stunner-speaker-bankole-opens-bribery-supreme-court-justices-aondoakaa%E2%80%99s-corrupt

we know so what next do you xpect,apart from typing jagoons and insulting theirselves.

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This wikileaks nonsense is a sickness

can you post the contents of the leak?

234Next and Saharareporters have fallen to the lowest standards of journalism!I used to respect 234next until yesterdays article on Jonathan voting 4 times! It has eventually turned out to be Aikhomu!

It beggars belief that Bankole will be briefing Americans on how Yaradua bribed supreme court judges. Any sense in that? What kind of cooked-up story is this?

of course lets stay here and act as if nigerias judiciary has not been infected with the bribery disease. Nigeria does not have a competent judiciary. How could someone blame next papers for doing what they are supposed to do when other papers are all about their business. I have gained enormous respect for next papers. Period. More more and more but that does not mean am against jonathan o, i just know that a lot of silly things and betrayals took place during yaraduas illness and they needs be exposed. Zooming to saharareporters
vote jonathan, vote buhari, vote ribadu. All of them are the same. Typical nigerian politicians. No one is better
and o yes, wikileaks is real atleast its not nigerian

of course lets stay here and act as if nigerias judiciary has not been infected with the bribery disease. Nigeria does not have a competent judiciary. How could someone blame next papers for doing what they are supposed to do when other papers are all about their business. I have gained enormous respect for next papers. Period. More more and more but that does not mean am against jonathan o, i just know that a lot of silly things and betrayals took place during yaraduas illness and they needs be exposed. Zooming to saharareporters
vote jonathan, vote buhari, vote ribadu. All of them are the same. Typical nigerian politicians. No one is better
and o yes, wikileaks is real atleast its not nigerian

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