Nigerian socio-political commentator and former presidential aide, Reno Omokri has dared suspended Senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan to sue him if he lied about being paid off for false sexual harassment accusation against him.
Omokri stated his on Sunday in response to a recent video interview wherein Senator Uduaghan claimed her husband, Emmanuel Uduaghan never paid Omokri.
His full statement:
Again, I have been inundated with requests for interviews and statements by the press after Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan made a recent statement in which she mentioned my name.
Rather than speak to multiple media, I will release this statement.
After rejecting the sexual advances of a strange woman who approached me on social media (some people later informed me that the woman may have been a catfish account used by Natasha, but I have no proof of this), Senator Natasha Akpoti-Iduaghan, out of the blues and with no apparent provocation, accused me of sexually harassing her on Tuesday, October 12, 2021, via a Facebook post (attached). Two days later, she accused me of the same offence via a video.
Multiple newspapers and websites carried her false accusations, and I am surprised but not shocked at her present denials. You may want to see some of the headlines from 2021, including this-https://m.lindaikejisblog.com/2021/10/politician-natasha-akpoti-accuses-reno-of-omokri-of-making-advances-at-her-despite-his-marital-status-he-responds-2.html
Natasha Akpoti’s 2021 video accusing me of sexual harassment, which she later deleted, can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CBDbYqFoy/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Natasha further accused me of getting contracts for my girlfriends when I served under President Goodluck Jonathan.
She said that the incident occurred at a state banquet held on May 6, 2014, for the visiting Kenyan president, Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta.
In response to her allegation, I announced a $50,000 reward for anyone who could provide a photograph or video of me at the Uhuru Kenyatta banquet.
I then thereafter published a First Class British Airways ticket (attached), proving that I was in the United States on the date and at the time when she said I harassed her.
I also published passport stamps that established that Natasha Akpoti, as she then was, lied against me.
After I did this, Natasha Akpoti deleted her Facebook post and video accusing me of sexual harassment, but not before I had kept copies.
I then phoned my lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome SAN. I was preparing to sue Natasha for libel, slander and defamation when a very prominent Christian cleric called me on three-way with one Mr Emmanuel Uduaghan, who would later marry Natasha Akpoti.
They appealed to me to let the matter go and paid me a large sum to settle the matter out of court, although the word used was that it was an “offering”.
The money was paid two days after the phone call and there is an electronic as well as paper trail of both the phone call and payment.
I have also sought the leave of my bank, and they will provide staff to testify, whether in court or at an inquiry about the payments.
The Nigerian media and interested persons may also contact British Airways directly to verify whether I travelled on the date and time mentioned. They may also want to contact the Nigerian Immigration Service to confirm whether or not I travelled on the date and time shown on my ticket.
Let me further state that I have never awarded or influenced the award of any contract to any woman in my life, whether relative, girlfriend, or platonic acquaintance. And if Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has evidence that I have, then she should, by all means, publish such proof.
I am prepared to physically testify to the above, under oath, in any court of law, senate hearing, commission of inquiry, or other legally constituted fact-finding body, whether in Nigeria or abroad.
Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan is very litigious. If what I have said above is false, then let her sue me.
I am a meticulous record keeper and kept records of what transpired when Natasha Akpoti tried to blackmail me by falsely accusing me of sexual harassment.
