Former presidential candidate, Dr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, has accused sure components throughout the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of sponsoring renewed allegations towards him by means of his estranged spouse, describing the transfer as a part of a calculated smear marketing campaign to undermine his political prospects forward of the 2027 common elections.
In an in depth assertion issued on Thursday, Olawepo-Hashim alleged that his ex-wife’s current media claims had been orchestrated by political actors linked to the identical community that, based on him, tried to derail his 2019 presidential marketing campaign.
“She had been recruited by components round Buhari within the UK Excessive Fee and the Nigerian Intelligence Company (NIA),” he claimed.
“They even tried to border me up for funding terrorism. I used to be questioned within the UK and launched when no proof was discovered. She was the one who equipped the knowledge to the UK authorities.”
The politician additional alleged that in the identical interval, the group influenced the seizure of two of his firm’s oil property — the Hely Creek and Abigborodo marginal oil fields — which had been later restored to his agency, Transnational Power Restricted (TEL), by a Federal Excessive Court docket in Abuja in November 2020. The courtroom, presided over by Justice Taiwo Taiwo, declared the federal government’s revocation of the fields unlawful and awarded $20 million in damages.
Olawepo-Hashim additionally linked his estranged spouse’s divorce proceedings within the UK to the alleged political plot, claiming that she obtained an undefended judgment awarding her £18 million (₦36 billion), which was later annulled by a Nigerian courtroom for the reason that marriage was carried out underneath Nigerian regulation.
He accused APC operatives of funding and selling her, saying, “They sponsored her with thousands and thousands of {dollars}, nominating her for a number of international grants for girls entrepreneurs and start-ups. My legal professionals have written to her repeatedly concerning the youngsters’s welfare, however she refused as a result of what she desires is £18 million — not the youngsters’s maintenance.”
The previous presidential candidate additionally alleged that his ex-wife had denied his household entry to their youngsters, branding her “knowledgeable blackmailer and social climber” who, he mentioned, income from damaging others.
“Now that the 2027 marketing campaign has begun, the identical APC handlers have picked her up once more, pushing her story within the media,” he claimed, dismissing the event as politically motivated.
Olawepo-Hashim additional rejected stories {that a} courtroom had ordered one in every of his firms to pay ₦300 million, describing it as “an invention of an APC evening courtroom,” insisting that neither he nor his authorized representatives had been served any such course of.
“It is a determined act that solely reveals how a lot our message is unsettling them,” he mentioned. “Selecting up tales from bitter girls towards opposition figures is not going to save the APC from defeat in 2027.”
He concluded by saying, “Tales like this didn’t cease President Trump in America, and by the grace of God, they received’t cease us right here both.”
