The suspended House of Representatives Lawamker, Hon. Farouk Lawan yesterday again denied that the second part of the audio tape on the alleged $620,000 bribe against him by Zenon Oil Chairman, Femi Otedola was not his voice.
Lawan, who spoke through his lawyer, last night Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN) said the tape was animated.
Accorrding to his lawyer the audio tape is laden with questionable pedigree.
Ozekhome charged Otedola to released the visual aspect of the scene in order to prove that his client demanded for the bribe.
In a statement signed by Lawan’s Lawyer said: “Farouk Lawan has instructed us to vehemently denounce the so-called part two of the alleged conversation between Mr. Femi Otedola and Mallam Farouk Lawan played on Channels TV.
“It reminds one of Baba Sala’s “Alawada Keri Keri” histrionics and comedy. It is even more obfuscating and labyrinthine. In William Shakespeare’s immortal words, “it is nothing but a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”.
“Lawan is portrayed in the said conversation as an unyielding, talkative, bellicose and eager person who was hurriedly urging Otedola not to tell anyone that the names of his companies will be removed from the indicted list, because if he went about telling people that, in an Oil Sector that is a small world where everyone knows the other, it would be difficult to remove his companies from the list of indicted ones.
“Lawan is also said to have uttered that it is left to the Committee to know what to do as he will spring it as a surprise on the floor of the House!
“Recall that in the so-called part one of the alleged conversation between the duo aired on Monday on Channels TV, Lawan was portrayed as an incoherent, stammering, unsure and sluggish speaker, who could hardly get out his carefully weighed words.
“This second part has more than ever before confirmed Lawan’s worst fears that the entire audio play back is a doctored, edited piece of animated voice that does not belong to him and which only forensic evidence can unravel.”
“He believes that the motives behind the audio are invidious, insidious and that the entire audio playback of Monday and Tuesday is of dubious and questionable pedigree.”
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