Sports development minister, John Owan Enoh, has addressed recent accusations of blackmail made against him by former boxing champion Bash Alli.
Alli, in a trending video and open petition to the president, claimed that Senator Owan-Enoh demanded a $1 million bribe to endorse his plan to stage a boxing event in Nigeria.
Owan-Enoh, in a statement, said the claims were “a tradition of deploying blackmail and gutter tactics” by Alli.
He explained that he met with Alli once “out of respect for his age,” despite staff warnings about Alli’s “character and antics.”
The minister claims that the meeting focused on Alli’s boxing event proposal and that no further contact occurred.
“Let me be clear. Bash Alli desperately wanted to meet me in my very early days as Minister of Sports Development, when I had hardly settled down on the job. In the deluge of his desperate attempts, I decided to meet him against the advice of…
Source: Guardian Newspaper
