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Senator Natasha Offered Me Money To Frame Akpabio - Prof. Mgbeke Alleges · DidiLawren

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  Hello and welcome back to an episode of Bandit Lorencia.
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  How are you all doing? If you're doing great for
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  today's episode, I want to bring you updates on Natasha's sexual
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  harassment allegations against Goodwill Akabia, the Senate
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  President. Now, for some of you who don't
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  know, let me just give you a recap.
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  We're just sitting down minding our business, and a video
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  surfaced online where Senator Natasha was trying to kind of
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  speak up in the House of Assembly or is the House of
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  Assembly or wherever she was trying to make a point.
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  And then the Senate President calls, like Babio told her to go
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  to her seat before she can make a point.
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  Now, before this incident, maybe a day before or even that
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  morning. I don't know when it happened.
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  They kind of changed sitting arrangements and according to
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  the story they told Natasha where to seat.
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  The clock told Natasha had gave her her new seat, basically
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  telling her she has to move from where she was sitting to a new
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  seat. NASA, she didn't like that and
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  she refused to go to the new seat that was allocated to her.
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  Now before this, people have been jumping from a PCPDP Labour
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  Party back to APC and all that. You know, Nigerian politicians
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  being who they are, they always go to where the power is.
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  So a lot of people kind of they come from PDP to APC, even
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  Labour parties, some of the Labour Party senators, they come
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  to APC. So the sitting arrangements need
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  to be kind of reshuffled. So when that was done, Sena Sono
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  Sasha did not want to go to her her newly allocated seats.
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  And then the Senate President goes with that.
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  You told her if you don't go to your new seats, there's no way
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  you can address the House. And according to their
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  legislation or their rules and regulations, that was how it is
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  done. If you are located a seat, you
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  have to be on your new seat to to kind of make a point or make
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  a statement. So Natasha kind of triggered.
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  There was this thing they said the trigger.
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  If you trigger that you can speak wherever you're standing.
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  But Gosselaar, Fabio was refusing to acknowledge.
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  Then as soon as Sasha, he was like, go to your seat before I
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  can acknowledge what you're saying, Senator Natasha kind of,
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  you know, lost it. Basically she started screaming,
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  saying that she's been marginalised.
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  She accused, she made a whole lot of accusations during that
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  video. It was an outburst and people
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  saw that as an outburst. They said NASA Shah, listen, we
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  understand that you're new to this whole Senate seating
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  arrangement or something, but if you're being allocated a new
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  seat, regardless of your grievances, you have to go to
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  your new seat to make a point. Since on Sasha finding out or
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  realising that things were not going her way, she started
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  throwing she drew sexual harassment and allegations into
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  the whole mix. She said that the reason why she
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  she had that outburst was because gospel apabe, which is
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  the Senate President kind of has been harassing her sexually.
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  She said there was a time one of the two years ago, about two
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  years ago, she said herself and her husband because Senator
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  Natasha's husband and Gosu, like Babu were very good friends.
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  According to Natasha, Gosu, like Babu, invited her and her
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  husband to his house. His wife was there.
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  They were kind of showing them around during that process when
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  the husband, you know, went to take a call, probably a Fabio's
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  wife is in the kitchen preparing something.
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  Nobody knows. But according to Natasha, she
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  was left alone with Akbabio and he kind of made advances.
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  He said, oh, you can come back to, you know, to this house and,
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  you know, do certain things. I mean, listen, that was her
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  allegation. So she said since she kind of
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  refused his advances that Akbabio pulled her out of.
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  There was this diaspora committee that she was sharing
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  at that point. She said, I said, so Akbabio
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  took her out of that, that position and gave it to somebody
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  else. So she said ever since then,
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  maybe trips that they used to go to or she felt that it could
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  have benefited our community that Aquavio doesn't take her to
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  those trips. So she said that was one of the
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  reasons why she she kind of, she had it.
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  She, she, she was screaming at him because she was tired of the
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  whole, I don't even know what to call it sports.
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  Natasha said she was tired. So she started granting
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  interviews. People said, OK, if Aquavio had
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  made advances, if Apabio had said something to you, do you
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  have evidence now says I said she had evidence.
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  She has, you know, lots of evidence that she's going to go
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  to court. So at this point she hadn't
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  filed anything in court, but she was just going to media house
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  and she went to Arise News to accuse Apabio.
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  Before you could say Jack, Apabio's wife sued because
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  according to Senator Natasha, the the incident happened in
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  their home. So Akabia's wife sued, sent on
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  Sasha for defamation because according to her, she was there
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  and nothing like that happened. And if something had happened,
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  she should have come to her anyway.
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  These are two, two cases. So Akabia wasn't suing.
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  The wife was suing. Senator Natasha eventually kind
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  of sued or I didn't even know she sued.
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  So we're just thinking, OK, Natasha, I even made a video
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  about this whole thing. I said, listen, this couldn't
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  have gotten to the level that it it has gotten to.
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  If somebody who is your husband's very good friend made
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  advances at you. And I'm very sure that if he's
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  your husband's friend at, you know, at some point you're going
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  to be friends with the wife. So this could have been settled
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  within the family. You could have told your husband
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  that I don't like the way your your friend is talking to me, or
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  I don't like the way you know, or you could say something to
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  the wife. Maybe okay, maybe not the wife,
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  but tell your husband so that he could match woman.
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  He could talk, talk to his friends to say, listen, this is
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  my wife. This is my woman, you know, and
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  I think if she had done that, she won't be going through what
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  she was going through because she said until she until that
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  outburst at the House of Assembly, she according to
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  Natasha, her husband did not know what was going on.
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  So before you could know what was going on, Nigerians were
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  demanding for proof. Nigerians were demanding for
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  evidence. Even very dark black man said,
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  listen, we've been trying to get a Babu.
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  We've been trying to get a Babu. Just give us one evidence, one
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  evidence and we're going to March on the street.
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  We're going to we're going to hold that Baggio accountable.
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  We'll be trying to get this man, but there's no evidence.
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  If you say you have evidence, Natasha, just give just give us
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  a little so that we can hold on to and we know what we're doing.
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  Natasha went to Women's International Women's Conference
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  where she talked about sexual harassment because at this
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  point, Natasha was now suspended for six months according to the
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  six months. They said six months is
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  basically like a year suspension in the house, in the house.
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  So she went to the women conference, international women
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  conference. She laid her allegations.
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  She said that baby is trying to, to, to, to because she refuses
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  advances, she's trying to kind of silence her.
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  So that became an international issue.
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  She went to BBC, she went to like she was Natasha.
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  So even those that were now supporting Natasha was like,
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  listen, Natasha, this is not an international issue.
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  This is a national issue. If you're saying that you have
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  evidence, bring this everyday, just bring some of it, even
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  release some of it in the media. There are so many people who are
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  trying to fight Apabio that will use that, will jump on that and
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  use it against, you know, Apabio.
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  Just give us the evidence. Your husband and your husband
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  and Apabio are very good friends.
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  I am very sure he knows some of those places where the bodies
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  are buried. Give us evidence.
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  Natasha could not provide evidence.
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  Instead Natasha came out and said that Apabius after her
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  life, if anything happens to her, they should hold Apabio
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  responsible. And Apabius camp were not
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  innocent. They tried in teaching Natasha,
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  they caught of over 252 hundred 50,000 signatures to impeach
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  her, which most of them we had videos, we saw videos online
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  where they literally forged those signatures.
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  People sat down in the room signing those forms.
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  So we knew or everybody knew that you know, those were fake.
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  So INEC rejected the the petition because they said the
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  signatures, there were no phone numbers, there were no addresses
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  attached to them. So they cannot accept that.
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  And then Natasha, Homecoming, she decided to be homecoming.
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  She was coming back to Gogi State after the whole
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  international drama. She wanted to come back to Kogi
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  State. And the Kogi State government
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  literally shut down the whole state.
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  No movement, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Natasha flew in with a helicopter to the event or to
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  the venue, and people were like, Oh my God, this woman, you know,
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  she's, she's fighting for justice.
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  She's really doing well. But even at this point, there
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  was no evidence. So many people were fighting for
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  Natasha. RBS Aquasili was called upon to
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  represent Natasha during a mediation between the Senate
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  organising mediation between Senate President and Senator
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  Natasha. RBS Aquasili was the
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  representative and Akbabi, you had another representative.
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  And when during that was that when that was going on, Obi kind
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  of said something to a Red Cab chief.
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  I don't even know his name, but he's a Red Cab chief.
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  And then Obi told him to shut up.
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  Basically that, ladies and gentlemen, was a showdown.
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  This man was screaming, shouting, insulting.
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  There was no name. He did not call Obi.
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  And Obi was just sitting down. After that there was other media
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  rounds, you know, look at the way men are talking to women.
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  It just became messy. And the whole idea of why
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  Natasha was, you know, the the whole objective was far to
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  represent our people. And it just kind of lost with
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  the whole drama that was going on.
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  Both international, both national people in there were
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  people were divided was men and women camp.
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  Some people believed Natasha, some people believed some people
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  believed gospel and Fabio. And then we're just sitting in
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  our minds in our business thinking, listen, there's at
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  some point these people are going to come to an agreement.
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  You know, there's there's something's got to give.
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  And then there's this lady, Professor Mbeki, she's on
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  Facebook. She's one, she's I think she was
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  a senator in Nigeria or she kind of held some political positions
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  in Nigeria before she left. She came out and said releasing
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  evidence. She said that Natasha, when all
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  this was going on, she supported Natasha.
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  She was like, wow, why would you know, maybe, you know, you know,
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  there's misogyny, you know that it's a man's world.
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  I mean, there are over 100 senators in Nigeria and just
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  four of them are women. So you know, something is going
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  on. You know that women are being
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  marginalised. She said when she heard
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  Natasha's story, she was all out.
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  She wanted to get into the whole thing to know exactly what's
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  going on. But she was asking Natasha,
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  where's the evidence? Give me evidence.
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  He harassed you. He she said what I want you to
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  tell for me to fight for you because she was fighting for
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  Natasha already online, but Natasha kind of wanted her to be
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  on her camp, you know, directly working with her.
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  So Natasha contacted Mrs Professor Mbeki.
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  So when that conversation was going on, Professor Mbeki said
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  she told Natasha that if she had to like come out publicly and
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  said, OK, she's working with Natasha, then Natasha will have
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  to give write her officially. She can be doing what she's
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  doing on Facebook. She's not being paid.
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  She's just doing that out of humanity.
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  But she said if Natasha had to contract her to, to work with
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  her directly, then she had to sign a contract or she had to,
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  to, to send her an official letter.
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  She said Natasha did not send the letter.
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  So Natasha called her and said that she wanted her to, to to
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  help her fight Senator Aqua Bill.
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  She said that she's happy to do that, but she will need to hold
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  on to something. She will need to hold on to at
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  least an evidence. She said Natasha did not provide
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  this evidence. She now called Natasha or she
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  said Natasha called during one of their numerous conversations.
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  She asked Natasha, is it just tell me the truth?
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  Was there sexual harassment in this case?
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  Natasha said there was no sexual harassment, that she was just
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  tired about the whole thing, that according to Professor
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  Nbeke, she shared the voice notes.
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  I mean, there were so many conversations.
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  She shared voice notes where Natasha said there was no sexual
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  harassment, that she just wanted to punish Consuela Papu, that
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  she, according to the Professor Nbeke, she said that Natasha
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  said that allegedly, allegedly, allegedly that she wanted to
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  disrupt the Yoruba government, which is basically Polamet Nupu.
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  And one of if she succeeded in doing that, they will put her as
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  a governor in Gogi State so or as a minister, minister of Mean
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  Petroleum, something like that. So Natasha had her agenda.
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  Nobody knows who is sponsoring her.
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  Professor Wege did not mention but she said that Natasha
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  allegedly said that you know she's being sponsored by other
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  parties to disrupt Bola Ahmed unbu.
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  He said she started asking Natasha to make peace that since
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  she doesn't have evidence, the only reason why she jumped on
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  the course was because Natasha said there was sexual
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  harassment. So she said that, but that was
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  her driving force. But when?
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  According to Professor Meke, when she realised that there was
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  no sexual harassment, she called Natasha to tell Natasha to to
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  pipe down to make peace. There's no like since there's no
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  evidence there was no sexual harassment, he could make peace
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  and then fight this fight in other different ways, she said.
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  Natasha refused and Natasha came out and was claiming that she
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  never knew who she was. So Professor Meke literally came
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  out and started providing evidence.
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  She provided voice notes. She did a live video.
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  She does. I watched that and I was like,
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  wow. Do you think that somebody is
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  behind Natasha? Do you think that Natasha is
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  being sponsored to bring down Akabiu?
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  Or do you think that maybe Professor Becky has been paid?
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  I, I don't even know what to believe because I heard some of
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  those voice notes or voice messages or the recorded calls
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  and I can tell you Natasha has an agenda.
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  Natasha has an agenda. Let me know what you think I'm.