Alleged Hacking: Okupe Fumes, Vows To Sue News Platform

Doyin Okupe, former senior special assistant to former
president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs has reacted to claims
made by Premium Times that he had links with companies paid to hack certain
‘unfriendly websites’ during Goodluck Jonathan’s administration. Okupe who had
earlier rained curses on twitter has now officially released a statement. The statement
below:

My attention has been drawn to the deliberate, wicked, malicious
and false publication by PremiumTimes against my person. Since this matter is
likely to end up in our law court, I will restrict myself to the fact of the
case only. Continue…

1. I say without any fear of contradiction that I did not
introduce anyone to the former National security Adviser neither did I collect
any contract by myself or through any proxy. Unknown to many Nigerians and
quite usual with politics at the top, for reasons not clearly defined I never
got along well with Colonel Dasuki retired. In fact he twice told me to my face
that he will get Alhaji Gulak and myself out of President Jonathan’s
administration. Colonel Dasuki would never have patronised me or any associate
of mine. It was for this reason I was totally schemed out from the entire presidential
campaign in 2015.

2. Mr Ilan Salman is my friend and we did business together
few years ago. But I have not had any business dealing with him since 2007 when
he resigned his membership of the company we formed together.

3. The name of his offshore company Romix Technology and the
company we ran together Romix Soilfix International Limited, bear similar first
names ‘Romix’. But that is where the similarities ends.

4. Mr Ilan apparently registered his new company, Romix
Technologies after he resigned from Romix Soilfix International Limited in
2007. He probably used this name because we both loved the name ‘Romix’. Even
when our South African partners from whom we derived the name Romix Soilfix
broke up and told us to drop the name, we both flatly refused. It is for this
reason that after Mr Ilan left the company, I also went ahead and registered
two more companies named Romix Farms Limited and Romix Homes Limited.

5. The fact that companies have similar prefixes or names,
does not obliterate their individual inalienable corporate identities.
Personally I have a brother who runs a company called Cornerstone Construction
Company which has no connection or any relationship whatsoever with another
company called Cornerstone Insurance Company Limited.

6. Romix Technologies is an offshore company registered in
Cyprus as claimed by PremiumTimes. I am not the owner, I have no relationship
with it neither do I have any financial interest. I had no knowledge of their
bidding for contracts from the office of the National Security Adviser, I was
not informed when they were awarded any contract neither was I in the know of
what and when they were paid. I have not benefited financially from the
proceeds of payment for the said contract neither can any money be traced to
me, or any of my family members or associates.

7. All these facts were made available to Mr Emmanuel Ogala
the journalist who wrote the story. Mr Ilan confirmed to me that he spoke with
Mr Ogala and that he denied categorically any involvement by me in the
transaction of Romix Technologies with the National Security Adviser. He also
denied the accusation by Mr Ogala that I introduced them to Colonel Dasuki, who
according to him (Ilan), they actually never met in person throughout the said
transactions.

8. Mr Ogala in his desperate bid to put me in the centre of
this transaction, lied in his story that I am linked with two of the three
companies that got the cyber contracts. That this is a lie is self evident
because even in his discussion with me, he agreed that the only link that I had
and they ‘investigated’ was the similarity in the names of Romix Technologies
and Romix Soilfix and also Mr Ilan Salman is a member of the board of directors
of my company Romix Soilfix International Limited.

9.In conclusion, Mr Emmanuel Ogala and his medium,
PremiumTimes are highly unprofessional and compromised journalist who are hired
as hatchet men to tarnish the reputation and good name of innocent Nigerians
who are defenseless against satanic journalist. Nigerians must know that it is
Okupe today but it would be anybody tomorrow. Using the platform of a newspaper
to fabricate damaging falsehood against people is in itself a terrible and
condemnable act of evil corruption which this administration is out against.

As I write this piece, the letter from my lawyers is on it
way to premium times to withdraw their false story and apologized to me
publicly within 48 hours otherwise they should prepare for battle in the law
court.