Sowore shot himself in the foot, yet again: In publishing what appears to be a diversion from the exposure of his duplicitous attempt to claim responsibility for the U.S. Embassy issuing its reminder on visa bans for corrupt officials, he has ensured that he takes as many heads as possible with him when the penalty for being the hatchet man for a government-sponsored smear campaign against a whistleblower under the Magnitsky Act finally catches up with him.
By Lilian Onoh
I have often wondered if duplicity is congenital but with regard to Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters, I never need to wonder.
Last week when I exposed the fact that he had yet again deceived Nigerians by trying to claim credit for the routine reminder posted by the United States Embassy that corrupt politicians would be denied visas, I knew that he would do exactly what Abike did – try to divert attention from his dubious actions by embarking on yet another character assassination campaign on his self-promoting sleaze website. Any exposure of the fact that his much touted anti-corruption activities are as fake as Pablo Escobar being an anti-drug tsar is guaranteed to make him lash out. He did not disappoint.
But in his haste to yet again impugn my reputation by republishing the lies that he previously told a U.S. Court that Geoffrey Onyeama concocted and gave him, he yet again shot himself – not just in one foot but in both feet and possibly his kneecaps too.
First, he wrote that he had the Certified True Copy (CTC) of Justice Keziah Ogbonnaya’s ruling with regard to Geoffrey Onyeama’s defamation case against me for reporting corruption in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This is the infamous judgment that recognised Geoffrey Onyeama as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and gave him a gender-reassignment from male to neuter. Sowore, the so-called anti-corruption activist, was suspiciously silent about this corrupt, insane ruling, so I assume he is still on Onyeama’s payroll, as alleged by Onyeama’s aide. In the meantime, Onyeama still hasn’t published his castration certificate and other ID documents.
This is also the judgment that my lawyer has not received the CTC of since we paid for it in June and which my lawyer was told that the court did not know when it would be ready.
So, several things are clear.
The first is that Sowore confirmed that he receives documents from corrupt Nigerian officials with which to attack their enemies, which he then frames as fighting corruption. In so doing, he confirmed to all and sundry that he is definitely part and parcel of the corrupt cabal destroying Nigeria which uses him as their hatchet man.
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If Justice Keziah Ogbonnaya actually gave Sowore the CTC whilst withholding same from my lawyer (and this is not yet another concocted story by Sowore), then he has quietly exposed another person that will fall afoul of the Magnitsky Act along with him. How else can one describe the fact that Sowore, who is not party to Onyeama’s defamation case, was given the CTC whilst I, who was a party and who paid for it months ago, has been denied a copy? Is that not an admission of total corruption by the co-called anti-corruption activist?
Secondly, when he republished the lies that caused me to sue him and Sahara Reporters in Texas, he made sure to expose several names that were behind these lies – Geoffrey Onyeama, Gabriel Aduda and Ali Gombe. So we can assume that he is using this opportunity to ensure that he doesn’t go down alone.
Sowore further shot himself in the foot by reporting that the U.S. judge that handled the case ruled that he is not a U.S. citizen but a Nigerian citizen and therefore subject to Nigerian jurisdiction, contrary to what most Nigerians believed for years. Many will recall that for years, he serially tried to dodge Nigerian jurisdiction by pretending he was a U.S. citizen. Now, we know that he is fully subject to Nigerian jurisdiction. In fact, in a cowardly bid to escape American jurisdiction, he informed the judge that he resigned from Sahara Reporters in 2017 and was returning to Nigeria to live full time. So now, Nigerian authorities do not need to worry about treating him as a foreign citizen anymore – he is fully under their jurisdiction.
Finally, in a shot to his kneecap, he republished lies that are the subject of my revised ongoing defamation case against Sahara Reporters and Lakeisha Landrum Pierre, the chairwoman of Sahara Reporters, who has been in charge of Sahara Reporters since 2017, according to what Sowore told the Court.
Lakeisha Landrum Pierre and Sahara Reporters have been dodging service of court documents for months. She and Sowore’s Sahara Reporters have even run away from their registered office in New York and are in hiding, operating clandestinely in a cowardly bid to escape from my $21 million lawsuit against them.
Of course, I will eventually get them served, even if I have to re-file and move the case from Texas to New York. They will eventually pay a heavy penalty for concocting lies to engage in a four-year smear campaign against me on behalf of Geoffrey Onyeama and the Buhari regime because I blew the whistle on the massive corruption that Onyeama superintended with the support of the powerful cabal in the Villa.
Sowore knows this so I assume that his irrational action in continuing his sleazy character assassination is because he has made peace with the fact that he has already lost. He knows that his actions in helping Onyeama and Gabriel Aduda concoct lies to attack me is corrupt and violates the Magnitsky Act; and that his fake reputation as an anti-corruption activist is falling apart at the seams.
So, in publishing what appears to be a diversion from the exposure of his duplicitous attempt to claim responsibility for the U.S. Embassy issuing its reminder on visa bans for corrupt officials, he has ensured that he takes as many heads as possible with him when the penalty for being the hatchet man for a government-sponsored smear campaign against a whistleblower under the Magnitsky Act finally catches up with him.
And this is exactly what I said would happen in my previous article. I am sure he will start exposing more corrupt accomplices with additional articles in the coming days and provide me with additional evidence on the corrupt official behind his four-year-long smear campaign. Magnitsky awaits…
- Lilian Onoh was Nigeria’s Ambassador to Namibia and former Chargé d’Affaires to Jamaica
