{"id":4172,"date":"2020-01-11T07:39:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T07:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=4172"},"modified":"2020-01-11T07:39:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T07:39:45","slug":"frame-up-cannot-silence-me-sen-shehu-sani-the-bribe-story-is-fake-imaginative-work-of-fiction-cruelly-crafted-to-smear-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=4172","title":{"rendered":"Frame -up cannot silence me &#8211; Sen. Shehu Sani\u00a0 \u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0The bribe story is fake, imaginative work of fiction cruelly crafted to smear me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>\u00a0Frame -up cannot silence me &#8211; Sen. Shehu Sani\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>&#8230;\u00a0The bribe story is fake, imaginative work of fiction cruelly crafted to smear me<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Abuja Nigeria<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>The former senator representing Kaduna Central has continued to react to the alleged allegation of bribery levied against him.\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>The allegation against him he had described as the handiwork of enemies who want to smear his reputation.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>\u201cThe allegations of \u2018extortion\u2019 against me are baseless, fact-less, unfounded, hollow and unsubstantial.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>\u201cIt is a scripted stream of mischievous concoctions and utter fabrications using a puppet state agent; all aimed at splashing faeces and mud on me.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>\u201cThe extortion allegation is nothing but a wholesale falsehood, packaged in a phantom anti &#8211; graft facade to taint, stain and mute me. That shall never happen if I am alive.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>\u201cI have made my statement and provided all my facts against their package of lies and I demand the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC ) to make public all the sheets of our statements and supporting documents for the world to see.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>\u201cMy detention is unfair, unjust, prearranged and politically motivated\u201d.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>\u201cFascism thrives in frame up of its critics.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>\u201cThey claim extortion and here they are closing my bank accounts, searching my houses and offices and demanding I declare my assets, of which I have already done that at the CCB (Code of Conduct Bureau) last year when I left the Senate.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>\u201cFrame &#8211; up cannot silence me!\u201d<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>\u201cI have never ever met with the CJN or any judge or judges or ever called directly or indirectly to offer to give or to give directly or indirectly any form of gratification from Alhaji Sani Dauda.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Explaining further, he said,<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>\u201cI have never ever discussed with ASD on any form of bribe or gratification to be given to any judge or any EFCC official.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>\u201cThe bribe story is phantom, the bribe story is a fake, imaginative work of fiction, cruelly crafted to smear me, to frame me and to justify my persecution.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>\u201cThe bribe story is a heap of blatant lies and outright falsehood concocted and fabricated.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>The EFCC accused Sani of collecting money from Sani Dauda, owner of ASD Motors, promising to pass it on to Ibrahim Magu, acting chairman of the anti-graft agency, to influence an investigation.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>and the EFCC to premiere a state drama.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>\u201cASD is a barely educated front for a state mission.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>\u201cCriminalising me or \u2018framing me\u2019 will not silence me, bend me or compromise me\u201d.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>The EFCC accused Sani of collecting money from Sani Dauda, owner of ASD Motors, promising to pass it on to Ibrahim Magu, acting chairman of the anti &#8211; graft agency, to influence an investigation.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>The senator was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for alleged extortion and has been in the custody of the agency.<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Frame -up cannot silence me &#8211; Sen. 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