Nigeria, Feb. 5 -- I was informed that Omoyele Sowore made references to things I allegedly said against President Bola Tinubu 11 years ago to somehow exonerate himself in the criminal case that he is facing for defamation. He claimed that I said that President Tinubu killed Chief Funso Williams in 2003. This is false. I never said that President Tinubu killed Funso Williams.

What I said was "I am not Funso Williams: I cannot be killed like a chicken." Those were my EXACT words: nothing more and nothing less.

I said them 11 years ago and I have long since retracted them and accepted the fact that they were not only inappropriate but that they may have also been misconstrued!

It is a measure of how desperate Sowore is that he should be ...