From Emma Arubi
Former Education Minister and business guru, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi has stated that he will not condescend to stripping anybody naked even as he would not take the laws into his hands for whatever reasons.
Reacting to a nude photograph of three women and a young man said to have been stripped naked by him at his Signatious Hotel in Effurun, near Warri, Delta State, Saturday, Chief Gbagi in a crowded press briefing held at his Oginibu palatial country home said that show of shame “is a contrived political blackmail by persons seeking to demean his hard earned reputation in a bid to truncate his 2023 gubernatorial ambition of ruling the state”.
He clarified that not only are the alleged victims freelancers working in the hotel, they are not known to him and not legally staff of the hotel, saying that “they connived and converted his hotel into their private business for shady deals that went sour and the bubble busted and exposed their pranks”.
Olorogun Gbagi who fingered the Delta State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Peter Mrakpor as the brain behind the blackmail and political shenanigans because he has a gubernatorial ambition come 2023 also maintained that “it is not in my character to do such ignoble act” just as “he will not succumb to any kind of extortion by any persons” emphasizing that he will contest the governorship election come 2023 by God’s Grace.
While stating that the victims made statement to the Heads of department of the hotel before being taken to police, he revealed that both statement are the same and that they are all in a conspiracy of theft and being used by some political neophytes, noting that in the current state of affairs “I will certainly seek legal redress to put a stop to this nonsense”.
According to him, he would graciously honour any invitation by the police and dismiss claim that any of his children were involved in the videoing of the nude victims and expressed deep agony on the capacity of some Deltans to blackmail hard working persons and businesses into bankruptcy that eventually crippled a very popular hotel in Warri some years back with all the workers suffering till date.
Chief Gbagi, a criminologist and former Chairman of the Nigerian Legal Aid Council called for a forensic test on the bodies of the said victims to confirm if his finger ever touched any of them even as he requested God to punish him if he ever did. He charged them to go to court to pursue their case if any instead deploying the services of social media platforms to ventilate their grievances.
He therefore charged the mainstream media to be very thorough, objective and see through the charade, pointing out that “not only are the victims well lined up for photo shots, the only male among them have his manhood very erect in an alleged situation of dehumanization”.
In the viral video shots, one of the female victims is visibly seen playing with her handset. Olorogun Gbagi requested that the hotel staffers present during the alleged ordeal be mentioned by the victims just as he claimed further that some of them have confessed to him already that they were being sponsored while some others are on the run.
Chief Gbagi who disclosed that there are more devious and devilish plots to undo him in the heady days ahead of the 2023 gubernatorial election said he has tasked his security details to be very vigilant both in the day and night to forestall the evil plot just as he is not disturbed by these distractions being perpetrated by people with demented minds.
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