Nigeria: The Rage and the Fever of Wikileaks

14 September 2011
analysis

The fever that is raging in Nigeria today is "wikileaks". Yet as entertaining as these secret communications are, the truth is that if you believe everything that you read in Julian Assange's "leaks" then you will believe anything. I say this based on my own personal experiences. So far I have been fingered twice by them and in both cases I can assure you that the stories were fabrications. They simply never happened.

The first story, which was published in an internet magazine called "Nigerians Abroad" with Wikileaks as it source, claimed that I had lunch with my father and traditional ruler, his Royal Majesty, the Ooni of Ife, his son Prince Tokunboh Sijuwade and the then American Ambassador to Nigeria Mr. John Campbell in the Ooni's home in Lagos and that at that lunch we collectively "begged" the Americans to support President Olusegun Obasanjo's bid for a third term in office.

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