Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and Human Rights lawyer, has stated that he has no personal relationship or any business dealings with the controversial crossdresser, Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky.
The blogger, Martins Otse, also known as VeryDarkMan, had posted a viral audio in which the embattled Bobrisky claimed that he gave some Economic and Financial Crimes Commission officials a N15 million bribe to drop the money laundering charge against her.
The crossdresser also claimed in the controversial audio, that her “godfather,” alongside the Controller-General of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Haliru Nababa, afforded him a private apartment, not the prison, to serve his six-month sentence.
VeryDarkMan during the expression of his opinion on the matter, alleged that Falana sought a presidential pardon for Bobrisky in exchange for N10 million, an allegation he made an apology over when he appeared before the House of Representatives Joint Committee on Financial Crimes and Reformatory Institutions on Monday.
Speaking on the issue during his appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday, Chief Falana said, “Bobrisky never spoke to me, I have never met him, I do not know him from Adam. He was alleged to have spoken to my son Folarin (Falz).
“Yes, my son said this guy was appealing to people for assistance and called my son I think on May 4 this year – please can you give me N3 million to be placed in a special part of the prison, we call it the VIP section.
“My son asked him, are you calling me under the authorization of the superintendent of prisons? He said no – please don’t call me again, I am unable to assist you to bribe the prison authorities and be very careful since you are already in prison for an offence.
“Please if you are you are going to call me next time, you either do through the superintendent or you write a letter endorsed by the prison authorities and that was the last. Somebody now start releasing tapes somewhere and went out to lampoon and rather defame me by saying the guy has spoken to me.”
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