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Wednesday, 4 July 2012

AUDIO: (2nd Part) The $3 million conversation between Farouk Lawan and Femi Otedola...


Lawan's lawyer has denounced the so-called Part 2 of the alleged conversation between him and Otedola in the case of the $620, 000 bribery allegation played on Channels TV.
Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), Lawan's lead lawyer, said he was portrayed in the said conversation as an unyielding, talkative, bellicose and eager person who was hurriedly urging Mr Otedola not to tell anyone that the names of his companies would be removed from the indicted list, because if he went about telling people that "in an oil sector that is a small world where everyone knows the other, it will be difficult to remove his companies from the list of indicted ones".
In a statement issued by Ozekhome, the lawyer said the tape reminded him of Baba Sala's "Alawada Keri Keri" histrionics and comedy, adding: "It is even more obfuscating and labyrinthine. In William Shakespeare's immortal words: It is nothing but a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
"Mr Lawan is also said to have uttered that it is left to the committee to know what to do as he will spring it as a surprise on the floor of the House! It would be recalled that in the so-called Part 1 of the alleged conversation between the duo aired Monday on Channels TV, Mr. Lawan was portrayed as an incoherent, stammering, unsure and sluggish speaker, who could hardly get out his carefully weighed words.
"This second part has, more than ever before, confirmed Lawan's worst fears that the entire audio playback is a doctored, edited piece of animated voice that does not belong to him and which only forensic evidence can unravel. He believes that the motives behind the audio are invidious, insidious and that the entire audio playback of Monday and Tuesday is of dubious and questionable pedigree," Ozekhome said.
Culled from Leadership Paper

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