Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity has threatened to release into the public a tape recording of the visit of the late Isa Funtua and other newspaper publishers.
The matter Garba Shehu is talking about pertains to when Sowore was detained by the DSS for over four months in 2019 and was later visited by the late Funtua. He has asked Sowore to retract his statements or else he would have no option than to release the tapes.
Shehu cautioned Sowore to let sleeping dogs to lie as the late Funtua is no more.
He took to Facebook and wrote, “Let’s get the facts straight on the meeting with Sowore in SSS detention. First, it is important to state that the meeting was not instructed by the government. Nobody sent anybody to go and negotiate Sowore’s freedom as he put it.
“The late Malam Isma’ila (Funtua), on his own called me to ask that I broker a meeting with him and two others with the SSS, which they agreed to. It is important that I state that it was the force of Malam Isma’ila’s argument that made the meeting possible.
“Vanguard Newspapers publisher, Sam Amuka and ThisDay Publisher and President, Nigerian Press Organisation, Nduka Obaigbena, all agreed that Sowore was a ‘rascal’, who had used his newspaper ‘to abuse all of us,’ but agreed, nonetheless to go and press for his release.