We have passed through this path before‏

I received from Chief Taiwo Ogunjobi's Ibadan-based lawyer, Deacon R. A. Morakinyo, a two-page letter dated 7th December, 2011 alleging defamation of character and libel. In the said letter, he is demanding from me N500m or a suit, amongst other conditions.

I think Chief Ogunjobi forgot he did this same thing when he came out to contest for the position of Secretary General of the NFA. He wrote me and ThisDay newspaper. I postulated that he was dismissed from service by a letter signed by Colonel Ahmed Usman (see copy of the letter). When he did it then, I was in Ibadan to get the letter, since my employers then wanted evidence. All the five people who had the letter then showed me but will not give out copy of the letter. They chorussd separately, "Taiwo will kill me". With the threat from his lawyer, I and my colleague, Emeka "Biafra" Enechi, were eased out of the desk via demotion. I wish he was alive today to re-live this event.

He became Secretary General for four years. Went on to become board member for another four years. Thence, I was still searching for that letter. I got it in 2008 but massively circulated it in 2010 here on this blog.

It was after this I went to the EFCC with my complaint. Whether this law suit comes or not, I have new grounds provided to seek for new investigation and demand fresh prosecution.

In this new letter, my avuncular Ijesha brother claimed he voluntarily left the Oyo State government service in 2009. He made a gazette document available.
That means a case of deliberately lying on oath is here. Between when he was dismissed by the letter signed by Ahmed Usman, a Colonel and Military Administrator of Oyo State and his 2009 date, all salaries and allowances he has taken from the public till MUST have been done deceitfully. This included his tenure in Gabros FC and Julius Berger FC. Was he still in service while working in those places?

NATIONAL ACCORD: He joined the National Accord newspaper as a party to make available the N500m. This blog is NOT published by the newspaper. How come the newspaper is a party to a publication she did not publish? He wants me out of job or demoted again as it happened in ThisDay?

Gathered he involved Patrick Omorodion and the Vanguard newspaper. This must be targeted at getting Vanguard to sack Omorodion. Did Taiwo Ogunjobi in line with the principle of "full disclosure" tell his counsel the whole truth that the dismissal letter actually exists?

I can also make available the panel report and the Oyo State governor's speeches when he inaugurated the panel and when the report was submitted to him. His friend, Leye Adepoju, was a member of the panel. I did not manufacture these documents. Is Ogunjobi just being aware of the existence of these documents? What about the clemency he was alleged to have had over the dismissal? More truth will become public in a matter of days certainly.

RATIONALE FOR LEGAL OPTIONS: If like they agreed in the three meetings of November (with some of the NFF members to 'manufacture' legal suits for myself and Omorodion because they claimed we were sponsored by NSC's DG, Patrick Ekeji and that the law suits will be enough to dislodge his 'few and powerful' media friends) and to get petitions to the National Assembly against the latter to buy time to end the NFF tenure in 2014, then, I am not shocked.
As part of the moves, Chris Green 'manufactured' a letter of defamation (a civil matter) to the Police with which our newspaper house was invaded, I was arrested, bailed and till date, the Police detained my laptop and hard disk. Ekeji has according to Hon Gaiya, chairman, House of Representatives Committee on sports, 195 charges before them. Has Ekeji not replied in the papers that he is ready for probe?

Gaiya spoke to a phantom sports journalist, John Adamu, in Morocco. Gaiya and some of his committee members were in Morocco on the bill of the NFF. This a moral burden which splashes mud on the high values expected of the entire House of Representatives whose members are supposed to be Honourable but in private and public, especially morally.

Now this new legal suit initiative. These confirmed the three meetings (including that of Asokoro?). The option they have to resort to, which out of desperation they have to use, is physical assault or death threats. Did their "ban for life" not fall through? Others will soon fall through too.

DOGS THAT EAT DOG: All the poverty stricken sports journalists benefitting materially and financially from all these confusion on ground, I wish them luck. May we all be rewarded by God accordingly by the works of our hands. It is a two-way sword. It is a curse and a prayer. Take yours.

We have a rich history of all that is going on now in mediaeval and contemporary history. Truth, it is an open wound, your consciences will not heal while you join for selfish reasons to kill the ethics of journalism and the good of nationhood.

Olajire: the urchin in the Glass House‏

What Ademola Olajire does not know includes that his return to the NFF was not because he is "good". It is the near depravity that he demonstrated in his first tenure that brought him back. His employers in the meeting where it was decided in Nicon Luxury's room 683 admitted that in terms of competence, Robinson Okosun was better and finer but they needed someone who can abuse his South-West kins when the time comes.

So in my piece on this blog where I talked of a 'hungry journalist', the obviously unschooled Olajire used the Oxford dictionary to measure the content and origin of the word. I had meant and mean intellectual hunger. He repeated the quality of his contextual ignorance in his reply. Candidly, I sympathise with him.

If Olajire had been a wise child, after he was relieved of his job in the NFF in the first instance, he would have noticed celebration. Two, if he wanted to return to journalism, he would have discovered he would not be welcome anywhere including Vanguard.

I thought a youngman like him would have learnt from the feet of worthy predecessors like Austin Mgbolu, who when he left, it was almost like a mourning regime. Mgbolu today is so respected.

I wonder if Olajire's kids respects him. He who can open his mouth and tear up in public Chief Adegboyega Onigbinde, who when he was presenting sports programmes in Radio Kwara, or when he was producing kids from Mount Carmel college, Ilorin Ademola must still be in the loins. He abused Adokiye Amasiemeka, Olusegun Odegbami, Sunday Oliseh etc Why should I be angry?

Respect begets respects. He lacks it all. It is ethical to be responsible and reasonable. All my pieces he gets directly from me. A coward that my friend and brother is, he went into hiding to "hit him hard" thinking I won't get it or what? All to satisfy his myopic bosses!