After failing to blackmail Linda Ikeji, Mukhtar ‘Mr. Aye
Dee’ Daniyan, a Twitter predator, seeks out another victim, this time Bola
Tinubu but it is a journey that has ended even before it began.
The man, who canonized his name and sought to change it from
Daniyan to Dan’Iyan, a.k.a. @Mrayedee, never rests nor slumbers in his
relentless search for a prey, someone to blackmail. He has been around for
a long time, since the days of the struggle against dictatorship but
while others fought at the battlefront, he was at the rear with the “gang of
four” as described by Prof. Wole Soyinka, sabotaging the efforts of the team
and seeking to profit from the struggle.
Here is more of what Prof. Soyinka had to say about ‘Mr. Aye
Dee’ in his memoir, “You Must Set Forth at Dawn”:
“One was a self-hating Igbira, a minority tribe from the
Nigerian hinterland, whose yearning to be mistaken for a Fulani aristocratic
scion had resulted in his changing his name from Daniyan to Dan’Iyan.
Partnering him was an ambitious youth from Swarthmore College, Jude Uzowanne.
The third member was a labor unionist from Edo in southern Nigeria, Tunde
Okorodudu, an activist in his own right who fell under the spell of the fourth
member and center of intrigue, the liaison officer for the U.S. Boston chapter,
Maureen Idehen, a pharmacist who had worked closely with me and was central to
the coordination of activities for much of the United States. Together, this
Gang of Four—the accolade was spontaneously bestowed—succeeded in serving a
timely lesson on the power lust even among a yet inchoate formation that sought
to curb power at its most virulent and malignant. It was a low point in the
career of the anti-Abacha movement, suddenly compelled to confront the banal
distractions of trite intrigues and personal ambitions. Expelling the
miscreants took its toll. The liaison officer, the Boston-based Maureen Idehen,
made off with our scant funds, leaving behind a trail of bad checks.”
Enter @MrAyeDee, the Twitter handle he now deploys as weapon to
move from prey to prey, victim to victim, to destroy reputations and pass old,
fake and fallacious information over to an unsuspecting public as the gospel
truth. He has employed his IT knowledge in the most dubious schemes. But Google
has found an answer to his type, thanks to the Linda Ikeji saga that exposed
him as a cyber predator and serial blackmailer.
Ayedee or Dan’Iyan covertly and overtly worked to destroy Linda
Ikeji, accusing her of plagiarism. Imagine the chief plagiarer pointing
fingers. He got Linda’s blog shut down. He thought he could destroy her
reputation. Bur he failed has most blackmailers do. Days after, in an
unprecedented decision, Google decided to bring Linda back. Exposed, AyeDee has
moved to another prey. This time he is looking for big money and big attention.
He has chosen the wrong person to blackmail in Bola Tinubu.
Digging up court documents nearly 20 years old whose veracity
are yet to be confirmed, AyeDee has been all over Twitter and Google Plus,
slicing up false, old and unverified statements and reports to blackmail Tinubu
and his family. Many would want to ask, ‘Why now? Why dig up an open and shut
case from the US courts even if it was true?”
The ways of the blackmailer are not hidden. They can dig up
anything and serve up anything as new.
Let’s for the sake of argument agree that such court decisions
exist and Tinubu was mentioned. Was he ever convicted? No. He was never. The US
government sought for a settlement because they could not prove their case
against him. Period. So, whose interest is ‘Mr. AyeDee’ serving by bringing up
documents about a case they is closed and that has been denied by those
mentioned. They were allegations that the US could not proof.
‘Mr. AyeDee’ no doubt has pay masters namely, Musliu Obanikoro,
whose credit card crime remain on the books. I challenge him to travel to the
USA today if he will not be apprehended. I am willing to buy him a first class
return ticket.
Tinubu today travels in and out of America without any one
stopping him. HE TRAVELS IN AND OUT OF EUROPE without anyone stopping him. He
is invited and visited to international functions in the USA and Europe. He is
well respected. His democratic credentials are unquestionable. A towering
figure in Nigerian politics. Tinubu’s place is secured and no amount of
regurgitation by the likes of Mukhtar ‘Mr. Aye Dee’ Daniyan can
change that.
Alfred Omolewa
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