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Sowore Dares Garba Shehu, Asks Him To Release Audio Tape Of Funtua’s Visit
Omoyele Sowore has dared the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu to release the audio tape of late business mogul, Isa Funtua and other newspaper publishers’ visit to him while in custody of the DSS last year.
Recall that the presidential aide had slammed Sowore for saying they came to ‘negotiate’ with him and also threatened to get the DSS to release a tape recording of the visit if he doesn’t stop making such claims.
The Sahara Reporters publisher who however made a clarification on the interview in which he talked about Funtua’s visit, stated that it was not a new video but an old one which only began circulating after Funtua’s demise on Monday.
Sowore further dared Shehu to “release a tape of the visit and the tape recording of the late Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari ordering the DSS to keep him in detention till 2023.”
He wrote;
EARLIER THIS EVENING BUHARI’S SPOKESPERSON GARBA SHEHU RESPONDED TO MY VIDEO WHERE I DESCRIBED MY ENCOUNTER WITH LATE ISA FUNTUA, A MEMBER OF BUHARI’S CABAL WHO LED A DELEGATION INCLUDING GARBA SHEHU TO MEET ME IN DETENTION APPARENTLY TO PRESSURE TO ABANDON #REVOLUTIONNOW
IT IS IMPORTANT THAT CONTRARY TO MR. SHEHU’S VITUPERATIONS, THIS VIDEO WAS AN EXCERPT OF MY INSTAGRAM INTERVENTION WITH JOURNALIST, SEYE KEHINDE WHILE ISA FUNTUA WAS STILL VERY MUCH ALIVE.
I RESPONDED TO GARBA SHEHU ON TWITTER AS BELOW:
1. GLAD YOU ADMITTED YOU LED A DELEGATION TO MEET ME IN DSS DETENTION BECAUSE THE DELEGATES SAID YOU ARRANGED IT. #REVOLUTIONNOW
GARBA SHEHU
2. IT IS VERY TRUE THAT I WAS NICE TO YOUR TEAM BECAUSE YOU WEREN’T MY PROBLEM, YOU WERE JUST AN ERRAND BOY. IN FACT I PATTED YOU ON THE BACK SAYING I HAD NEVER MET YOU BEFORE AND FAIRNESS, YOU WERE RESPECTFUL BUT I KNEW YOU WERE THERE ON A HATCHET JOB.
GARBA SHEHU
I URGE YOU TO RELEASE THE TAPE, BUT DON’T FORGET TO RELEASE TAPES OF CONVOS BETWEEN COS ABBA KYARI AND DSS DG ASKING THAT MY DETENTION SHOULD LAST FOR THE DURATION OF THE @MBUHARI REGIME IN 2023 BECAUSE @SAHARAREPORTERS DID A REPORT THAT REVEALED THAT HE COLLECTED N500M FROM MTN.
GARBA SHEHU WHY CAN’T YOU BE HONEST FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE, WHEN YOU CAME TO MEET ME IN DETENTION WHAT WAS YOUR INTENTION, WHAT WOULD HAVE CONSTITUTED THE CONDITIONS FOR MY RELEASE? WHO WOULD HAVE ORDERED MY RELEASE, ISA FUNTUA? WHAT POWERS DID FUNTUA HAVE TO GET ME RELEASED?
MY INSISTENCE THEN GOT ISA FUNTUA RILED AND HE SAID THAT MY LAWYER WAS ONLY GRANDSTANDING AND THAT HE TOO HAD BEEN IMPRISONED BY BUHARI IN 1983 AND THAT NO ONE CAN DEFEAT THE GOVERNMENT. YOUR WICKED SELF KEPT QUIET BUT NDUKA NOTICING I WAS UPSET TOOK ME TO THE DO’S ANTE ROOM
WHEN I ARRIVED DOWNSTAIRS I MADE A TELEPHONE CALL TO MY LAWYER, FEMI FALANA IN THE PRESENCE OF THE DSS OFFICIALS TELLING HIM THAT I DO NOT WANT TO NEGOTIATE MY FREEDOM AND THAT WHEN HE MEETS YOUR TEAM HE SHOULD RESTATE MY POSITION, HE DID EXACTLY THAT, YOUR TEAM GOT UPSET AGAIN.
SOON AS I MADE THAT CALL TO FALANA I WAS STOPPED FROM EVER MAKING ANY FURTHER CALLS UNTIL MY CONTINUED DETENTION BECAME AN INT’L ISSUE, I WAS THEN OFFERED A BUGGED CELL PHONE WITH WHICH I GRANTED AN INTERVIEW TO @PREMIUMTIMESNG, WHILE I WAS CALLING MY FAMILY THE PHONE WAS SEIZED.
PLEASE ALSO PRESENT A TAPE OF YOUR MEETING MY LAWYER IN LAGOS, BECAUSE HE TOLD YOUR TEAM THAT ASKING ME TO RENOUNCE #REVOLUTIONNOW WOULD AMOUNT TO SUICIDE, BECAUSE O EXPRESSLY TOLD HIM THAT WAS THE PLAN BUT THAT WE CAN’T GO BACK ON #REVOLUTIONNOW!
The Rivers State House of Assembly, led by Speaker Martin Amaewhule, has initiated impeachment proceedings against Governor Siminalayi Fubara and Deputy Ngozi Odu, issuing them a seven-day notice to respond to allegations of gross misconduct.
The Assembly cited eight specific allegations of gross misconduct as the basis for the move.
This is the third time Fubara and Odu would be facing impeachment proceedings from the Assembly since coming to office in 2023.
Attempts to impeach them in 2023 and 2025, amid political feuds between the Governor and his predecessor and erstwhile political god-father, now Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, had been halted by presidential intervention.
Here are the allegations below:
1. Reckless and unconstitutional expenditure of public funds
2. Unconstitutional misappropriation of public funds
3. Hindering the Rivers Assembly from performing its constitutional duties
4. Illegal appointments of persons without screening by the House of Assembly as provided by the Constitution
5. Seizure of salaries and funds meant for Assembly members
6. Seizure of salaries of the clerk of the Rivers House of Assembly, Emeka Amadi
7. Refusal to implement provisions of the Constitution on financial autonomy of the legislature and the judiciary
8. Withholding of funds meant for the running of the Rivers House of Assembly Service Commission and hindering its activities
Lilian Adebayo, the wife of the 2023 presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, has said that the party will unseat the ruling All Progressive Party at the 2027 election if Nigerians are true to themselves.
Mrs Adebayo made this assertion known on Wednesday during an interview with journalists after an event in Abuja.
According to her, the opposition party has overcome its crisis after the expulsion of its former chairman, Shehu Gabam and others.
She said Nigerians should vote the APC out in the 2027 general election due to the hardship the party has plunged citizens into.
“There is always a crisis in the party; the SPD has been able to handle its own. The problems in the party have been resolved.
“He has a great chance of winning the election if Nigerians are honest with themselves. If Nigerians think that the ones they consistently vote for would move the country forward, they live in denial,” she concerning the husband.
Recall that SDP recently expelled Gabam and other party executives.
The party’s state chairmen on Wednesday urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the police to investigate Gabam over alleged misappropriation.
In a significant political move, Enugu State Governor Peter Mbah officially defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday, October 14, 2025.
Mbah announced his decision during a televised broadcast in Enugu after weeks of speculation.
He said, “Today, after a long reflection, we have made the decision to leave the Peoples Democratic Party and join the All Progressives Congress.”
Mbah explained that his decision to join the PDP was informed by the need to reshape Enugu and reorganise the politics of the state.
“Today, I stand before you to announce a break from the past and to share a decision that will shape the road ahead. This concerns our values, how we organize ourselves politically and how we secure the future of our project and our people.
“Leadership sometimes demands painful decisions in the service of higher principles and goals. And there comes a time, when everyone must make a bold choice to determine their destiny.”
Ahead of the governor’s defection, all members of his cabinet had on joined the ruling party.
Governor Mbah’s Senior Media Aide, Dan Nwomeh, confirmed the mass defection in a video posted on his social media handles on Monday. In the video, several government officials were seen openly declaring their allegiance to the APC, chanting praises for President Bola Tinubu and affirming their commitment to the new party.
“Enugu State Cabinet Members join the APC with full chest along with Governor PN Mbah,” Nwomeh stated.
The officials, including commissioners and top aides, could be heard in the video declaring, “We are now in APC; tomorrow is here; it is APC all the way; it is Jagaban all the way; from top to bottom.”
The collective defection marks a significant political shift in Enugu State, which has been a PDP stronghold since 1999.
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