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[00:00:01] a minister that had demonstrated on daily basis, this [00:00:04] is the road I'm constructing, he's [00:00:06] of going here, he's 30 km, if you tell us who [00:00:10] live [00:00:10] in a po village that wick should be dispensed, some [00:00:14] of them might not be supporters a weekend before, but today [00:00:18] you can go to that village without any go any point in time, even in russia [00:00:22] hour, how do you address such electorate that i found [00:00:26] useful, he [00:00:28] in built, he helped them to build a [00:00:31] a residential in Wasa, if you go [00:00:34] there, if you are one of those who live there, you might be enemy before [00:00:38] to weak, but today it might not be, I'll let them [00:00:41] not forget, because it's [00:00:43] of always good to pick the pieces together, there was a time with so much [00:00:47] ang the PDP, it was weeker that picked the [00:00:50] of PDP a up, is it only river that he picked [00:00:53] up, when I'm [00:00:57] distinguish sheriff and we are doing the... [00:01:04] he was him that picked PDP up that that his excellency [00:01:08] article inherited and decided to this man [00:01:11] to betray, no, [00:01:15] no, no, don't limit him to river state, please, no, I mean, yeah, of [00:01:19] course, in political science, in political science, if you [00:01:23] have [00:01:23] a crucial election like this, has, don't [00:01:27] forget, these governors the are making. [00:01:30] of is the election of June 16th, January 16th [00:01:34] is cinibus zone is not governor, they might [00:01:38] a disappear, in fact some [00:01:40] of them have started whispering to their electorate, please three weeks [00:01:44] later [00:01:44] on my own, whatever you do Mr. President, you know [00:01:48] your own, okay, and there's no way you will know [00:01:51] them, all right, all right, the electorate, please, [00:01:55] whatever you do, Mr. President, I don't, but vote for him, but if you don't vote for him, [00:01:59] remember. me three weeks time okay, [00:02:03] mean to be fair to wiki like you said [00:02:06] uh, it does have uh a good record in [00:02:10] terms of infrastructural development in Abuja, [00:02:14] and i'm [00:02:14] in a witness, because [00:02:16] you know i also live in albuja and you know we cannot deny even [00:02:20] when we disagree with his politics and we see lot of [00:02:23] exercises, we cannot deny uh the work that he has [00:02:27] of done, especially on road inf. structure, i think he [00:02:31] could do better also in in health and education and he has not [00:02:35] left his impret there, but on the [00:02:38] of roads hey, you got to give it to him, but last question [00:02:41] becuse about time that i want to address to you is that there are [00:02:44] considerable worries about the excesses of [00:02:48] mr. wick's politics, okay, don't [00:02:51] do that about that, now and it has gotten to the [00:02:55] point where some [00:02:57] of the APCR politics. are [00:03:01] just not uncomfortable, that's going to the point that they [00:03:04] feel that they have been snobbed and and wick [00:03:08] has proceeded as though uh, you know they don't [00:03:12] matter, okay now so the the question [00:03:15] is is this the best way in your [00:03:19] own view to to to to resist some of [00:03:23] those exercise which didn't start today of mr wicky some of his political [00:03:27] exercis including the way that he has managed the politic. of river [00:03:31] state between himself and fubara they've seem to made up [00:03:34] now but it will seem that well look mean the fubara [00:03:38] guy uh has just been beating [00:03:41] up you know blue and black and the guy just [00:03:43] of surrender but there are a lot of water that has gone under the [00:03:46] bridge so but the question is is [00:03:49] this the best way to address the [00:03:53] excess of mr [00:03:55] a wick last question and that's what i told [00:03:59] you that internal mechanisms [00:04:01] of the party to resolve [00:04:03] of it and also also accord Mr. President the [00:04:07] wits and the [00:04:08] of wisdom that he can settle such matters, but let me be [00:04:11] of honest with you, since [00:04:14] of we keep the local football matches [00:04:16] of out of corruption, I'm a fan [00:04:19] of the European Leagues, I've seen [00:04:22] coaches, [00:04:25] pay for a striker who they [00:04:28] of know had no character. you ask the [00:04:32] coach, what are you doing? this man is an idiot, need the [00:04:36] goals, you want to win [00:04:39] elections, you want to score goals, that's the coach [00:04:42] idea, and we are coming to that level, anybody that tells you [00:04:46] that we APCs comfort, we are comfortable, he's not being honest with mr [00:04:50] president, let us put all [00:04:52] of the of firewood in place, luckily for [00:04:56] us with the 31 governors we have is [00:05:00] is it for Mr. how spread? but if you have spread [00:05:04] and you do not have majority, you are bound to [00:05:08] go into a runoff, a runoff doesn't ask for [00:05:10] of spread the... about that, they don't care about Mr. President, the [00:05:14] pretenders, that's why I told Mr. President, the [00:05:18] few, very few them pretenders. Thank you, we're going to all [00:05:22] see how the president is going to respond to this, [00:05:25] the whole, the whole nation is are waiting the president's [00:05:29] response, because uh, [00:05:31] you know, [00:05:32] it is going to determine lot of this. All right, thank you again [00:05:35] mces, appreciate that, appreciate, thanks [00:05:38] emillion. All right. [00:05:44] Welcome back in this segment, I want to have a quick [00:05:47] conversation uh with new york [00:05:50] based uh author and a media [00:05:53] partitioner uh somebody that I've known in the US since I was [00:05:57] here uh 20 years ago he was the uh [00:06:01] the first African student to be awarded the Tiish [00:06:05] School of Art fellowship at the New York University and is also [00:06:09] a graduate of Columbia uh School of Journalism. uh where he also [00:06:13] has master's degree, that was second master's degree. i like to welcome uh [00:06:17] to inside sources for the first time mr. adimala Bello. my [00:06:20] brother, good to see you inside sources. good to see you. all right, thank you for [00:06:24] inviting me. yeah, so uh, you wrote an [00:06:27] article uh, that was published both [00:06:30] by uh our own uh medium, that [00:06:34] finded empowered news answer reporters uh, and you [00:06:38] detailed, you detailed uh the questions. [00:06:42] run some the claims of von [00:06:45] Batten, the Nigerian born uh [00:06:49] lobbies that articu H who changed his name to vombatin, actually his real name is [00:06:53] Carl Ikemefuna. now I want you to give [00:06:57] our audience a summary of your [00:07:00] findings uh that you wrote about in that in that [00:07:04] story, which by the way, he has now responded to, but first just give our [00:07:08] our viewers a summary of your findings as written in that [00:07:11] article. Okay, thank you so much for inviting me, so [00:07:15] I through my investigation I find out that [00:07:19] he has multiple names like nine names, so [00:07:23] and names, nine names, and he also [00:07:27] ask all these questionable fabricated [00:07:30] degrees, so and he also [00:07:34] like uh, he has all this uh like [00:07:37] domestic violence uh lawsuit record [00:07:41] against this. friend in your report said that [00:07:43] there was a conviction he was he was convicted of miss demin assault [00:07:47] that's DC why uh [00:07:49] Washington Virginia I believe in Virginia I'm not I'm [00:07:53] not have [00:07:55] to have to double check so it it was after that [00:07:58] conviction that he rebranded his name [00:08:02] so so what was his name before the conviction it was his his name before was [00:08:06] ekemefuna uh okay so [00:08:09] and is is his friend at that time [00:08:13] was uh Miss Murphy okay so and uh [00:08:17] his current wife also rebranded a name so after [00:08:20] because his current wife was his was his roommate at [00:08:24] that time so when he invited the [00:08:27] girlfriend to come for July 4th event in his [00:08:31] house and uh his current wife who happened to be his roommate at [00:08:35] that time was telling the the [00:08:39] girlfriend that he is also having mean [00:08:42] relationship with with him and that created [00:08:46] conflict tension between those women and he has [00:08:50] the girlfriend to leave, that's when the girlfriend alleged [00:08:54] that [00:08:54] he he drag her out the house and then he was the case became a court [00:08:58] case in 2003 and he was convicted and i think that [00:09:02] was he [00:09:04] was condom domestic violence and the what people got wrong in that [00:09:07] case was that [00:09:08] you know nigerian media thought like oh it took is get [00:09:12] friends last, mean his wife last name, no, both them [00:09:16] actually rebranded, so the [00:09:18] the wife, so didn't [00:09:18] you take is not the name the girlfriend, no, it took the [00:09:22] last name, mean both them took a new name, because the last [00:09:26] name the girlfriend, as i was saying, the the [00:09:28] the surname girlfriend was g r a r, [00:09:32] okay, so so so she and rename [00:09:36] was katie elizabeth gra right, [00:09:40] so and the both them, later married [00:09:44] and and [00:09:46] adopted carl [00:09:48] matin so german [00:09:51] you know calm is actually like a german philosopher so he [00:09:55] adopted calm's name then von bratin to [00:09:59] sound british aristocratic [00:10:02] german last name [00:10:03] you know like that's like royal family name so so and i believe the [00:10:07] reason he did that to package himself so that he will get invited [00:10:11] to like - important occasions like when you have a name [00:10:15] and people don't see your face like okay you have this aristocratic [00:10:19] name so they invite you to all these events so that's [00:10:23] part the some [00:10:25] are uncover and i also discover that he has [00:10:28] used uh as a law base he has [00:10:32] used all these uh names of [00:10:36] elected republican officials even he used [00:10:39] biden's name before so to [00:10:42] get all these contract is getting from african countries [00:10:46] is not is not so this is not his first uh no this is this [00:10:50] is not no no he has represented [00:10:54] the... democratic Republic of Congo, he has represented uh [00:10:58] Somalia, [00:10:59] so he has represented Burundi and he doesn't [00:11:03] have a track record as lobbist, so that's why I was shocked [00:11:07] that if, but what about those countries that you just, you don't consider [00:11:11] this to be his track record uh, because he didn't achieve anything for them, [00:11:15] so so most the stuff he was doing is effective on social media, [00:11:19] okay, so so he will okay, he didn't achieve, okay, let [00:11:23] me give you an example like ' when he was representing Democratic [00:11:27] Republic of Congo and there a tension between Congo [00:11:30] and Rwanda and he tweeted that uh Paul [00:11:34] Kagame the president of Rwanda was banned from [00:11:38] attending Washington DC prayer breakfast [00:11:41] and uh it immediately the embassy of [00:11:45] Rwanda and the US dismissed it like no that's not true and Kagame [00:11:49] came to to that event to that to that event oh wow where was [00:11:53] this that was like a 2024 okay, so [00:11:57] I mean this is interesting and let me just interrupt you going [00:12:00] to continue the story, but what you just said now is very important because [00:12:03] you know it will seem that there are some people around [00:12:05] presidentubu who have [00:12:09] uh you know taken the view that because of some of this stuff that is going [00:12:13] on and what may somebody may put a stone in in New York you shouldn't [00:12:17] come so so you are saying that when something [00:12:19] like that happened regarding Kagame you know Kagame [00:12:23] actually showed up yeah. I mean show up because [00:12:26] you know like uh no disrespect to people that work for president [00:12:30] maybe they are so scared of this uh carmas from batting [00:12:34] because every time he always tweetted like okay tagging president [00:12:38] trump basically the rei washington [00:12:42] k street lobbies they don't do that so so like you don't [00:12:46] pretend to be like a you know like being [00:12:50] like polarizing figure as a lobbist like he's [00:12:53] basically [00:12:54] like a doing more like mager so so when you [00:12:58] will see everything is tweeting like a it seems [00:13:01] like a he will tag uh you will see sweet [00:13:05] it will tag jedvance it will tag president trump it will tag [00:13:09] morubio it will tag susi wise mean the white house [00:13:13] chief of staff and the senator tim scott and [00:13:17] even from what i find out - [00:13:21] senator tim scott's office uh they uh they said [00:13:25] are taking action on him because because he's using the [00:13:28] senator's name to like uh promote [00:13:32] himself so and two other republican [00:13:35] congressman from florida uh bran [00:13:38] mast and another one [00:13:41] greg uh i forgot his last name but they are also [00:13:45] also from florida so they are also taking action against him [00:13:48] so so you are saying that you are surprised that uh atuk abubakar the [00:13:52] ADC president candidate uh uh or this guy? yeah, [00:13:56] i'm surprised and the and i'm shocked, that's [00:14:00] why i said in my article that article should fired [00:14:04] people that ask him to pay from batting $1.2 million dollars [00:14:07] because they sabotage this campaign, because you will expect somebody of [00:14:11] articus caliber that somebody was a former [00:14:15] vice president to have like knowledge of [00:14:19] okay how the system really works in the us, if you want to hire a lobbist [00:14:23] you hire like at least competent case rate [00:14:26] lobbis so not somebody that most of his engagement is on social [00:14:30] media and i think is using the reason why he was [00:14:33] able you see like he has not really gotten any really [00:14:37] significant country to represent in africa except until or [00:14:41] this article is like the highest [00:14:45] person that the most pr mean high profile person [00:14:48] that that is represent other people like [00:14:52] DRC Democratic Republic of Congo Burundi. [00:14:55] and then Somalia so and and I think it's just [00:14:59] using them and they're using all these elected republican names [00:15:03] to to just [00:15:06] to to prop himself up like okay so he's [00:15:09] a is a well established or he has all this connection so and most of [00:15:12] his engagement and on social media and if you see some the [00:15:16] things he was saying about Kagami as if like US is going to impose [00:15:20] sanctions on Rwanda and all these things didn't [00:15:23] work out so... so he just like maybe just [00:15:27] getting paid without doing much and we do lot of social [00:15:31] media yeah yeah social media engagement but the thing is that the the the [00:15:35] presidency as mr b got, i think about [00:15:39] a week ago, has actually responded to him, [00:15:41] you know, do you think that uh, if he was able to get a [00:15:45] presidential response, don't you think that means that he's probably getting under some [00:15:49] people's skin? uh, maybe, you know, i can't speak for [00:15:53] them, but but maybe he's getting under their skin, because uh, because i'm [00:15:57] just surprised that the uh the [00:16:00] presidency even didn't even take action on this [00:16:03] guy, such as because because i believe what [00:16:07] he's doing, he violated the the [00:16:11] foreign registration act for as lobbies in the [00:16:14] US, because what he's doing basically cross the line, that's not what [00:16:18] a lobby, because lobb is like okay, you are representing somebody, but what [00:16:22] is dabbling into is like representing [00:16:26] like a political party, [00:16:27] you know, so to certain extent like because his engagement, it's not just [00:16:31] about representing article now like like - most of [00:16:35] his tweets that is everything is [00:16:38] doing, i think it basically [00:16:42] violated the US lobby uh act if if they if [00:16:46] they actually read the lobby's provisions so they will know what i'm [00:16:50] talking about that interesting that that they didn't take action on it okay [00:16:53] so what what do you have to say about uh uh the fact that he [00:16:57] he announced you know that he's gotten this white house commissioner [00:17:01] presidential commissioner role and then he deleted it what do you think was going on [00:17:05] it was just a lie so let's just call [00:17:08] it a spad [00:17:09] is paid so he didn't get any white house position so what [00:17:13] he i think what he was trying to project is just to project [00:17:17] like somebody who has authority figure in the US so by [00:17:21] saying that okay he got this white house position [00:17:24] everybody the presidency will be afraid of him right so the they will think like an [00:17:28] article we think is doing a good job for him because the reason [00:17:32] is making all this money yeah is because [00:17:36] he tie himself to president Trump like he [00:17:40] donated $5,000 to republican party and he thinks [00:17:43] like by donating $500 to republican party uh [00:17:47] that gives him protection from anything, [00:17:51] i see that a lot of his tweet says uh my friends in [00:17:55] department of justice, my friends [00:17:57] in mean that that [00:18:01] is clearly you know somebody that is uh trying to be out [00:18:04] their wit because it's not supposed to be about friends. it's supposed to be about rules [00:18:08] and regulation, exactly, and that's that's another way of [00:18:12] like violating the f act the [00:18:16] lobbies, what what what they call the [00:18:19] for at foreign acting the people in department of state and justice department as his [00:18:23] friends and yes i think something is that doesn't sound [00:18:26] very very right, but you know uh, my view is [00:18:30] that he has a right to change his name, you don't think that [00:18:34] is legal, everybody has a right to change their name or vice [00:18:38] president Jd Vance right, he change his name, okay, so but what [00:18:42] is different is that when you the [00:18:45] motive behind the changing of name, you know, like he changed his own name after he was [00:18:49] convicted of domestic of a crime [00:18:53] and he has to rebranded himself and now using multiple [00:18:57] names, it's not just changing the name like when you see [00:19:01] like all the people is represented as lobbist he call himself [00:19:05] carl v batin. [00:19:12] so so like you have to be like so so it's using all [00:19:16] these multiple names for for for whatever [00:19:20] reason you know it's it's just so strange [00:19:23] how is using all these like a multiple names in [00:19:27] different in differen documents [00:19:31] so that that is like red flag you know so it's not just about changing [00:19:35] name but when you are using it in different different Yeah, yeah, and [00:19:39] then if you look at his uh foreign act, the foreign [00:19:43] registration of lobby's act, you was required to [00:19:46] state his uh citizenship, if it was different from being an [00:19:50] American, but he left that place vacant exactly [00:19:54] uh, you are claimed that he is in Nigerian, yes, because I've seen a video, [00:19:58] which means that by not declaring, by not answering that question, he was insinuating a [00:20:02] lie, yeah, it was insinuating a lie, but though I may not know [00:20:06] whether he submitted. form where [00:20:10] we have the one we have on record in public domain [00:20:13] is it didn't declare that he wasn't born in the US so [00:20:17] he basically left it blank to insinuate that maybe he was born in [00:20:21] the US but how do we prove how do you prove that is [00:20:25] wasn't born in the US uh because because he he in the [00:20:29] in many the online accounts that even [00:20:33] daily times of Nigeria and other people reported that I cited in my article [00:20:37] right? he said during the 11 he was young [00:20:40] immigrant from Nigeria and he called [00:20:44] himself that he was at [00:20:46] the 39th floor of world trade center and he said he was investment. [00:20:50] banker do you know if they say somebody is investment [00:20:53] banker, investment banker is somebody who [00:20:57] match companies yeah who created an IPO like [00:21:01] a you know so what do we know that he wasn't so so so okay let's put [00:21:05] ourself in that show like just imagine like young immigrant that just [00:21:08] came and uh you are to be investment [00:21:12] banker to be investment banker you know it's a [00:21:16] different thing investment banker is different from just working a bank mmm [00:21:20] investment banker is the person [00:21:23] a major of major [00:21:27] corporations, i see, so investment banker is the one [00:21:30] that handles the IPOs of public [00:21:34] trader mean companies right, so I guess it was just basically [00:21:38] embellising, yes, so so so that [00:21:40] that that is another uh reflect about him, but in your [00:21:44] article you also spoke about the fact that you question some of his degrees, can [00:21:47] you talk yeah yeah yeah so so so [00:21:50] in in my article like okay uh on [00:21:53] his uh research gate profile for example [00:21:57] and link so he claimed that is a professor of [00:22:00] mathematics at colombia university okay so he [00:22:04] listed himself as a professor of mathematics and he said that he got [00:22:08] this doctor of earth administration at [00:22:11] colombia university colombia doesn't offer that so colombia university does [00:22:15] not offer that what about his name [00:22:19] in on the on the stff of colombia uh his name [00:22:23] was not there [00:22:24] you know what i actually did when i saw that all the stuff [00:22:27] he did like claim went to colombia university so i [00:22:31] forwarded uh [00:22:33] you took a screenshot and send the his information [00:22:36] to colombia board of trusty member that i know [00:22:40] and he send it to other members of colombia board of [00:22:43] trusties and i said oh can you guys really [00:22:46] say a statement this guy did [00:22:47] not attend colombian university they said they said [00:22:51] they don't normally release a statement about somebody making false claims [00:22:55] because they don't want to give the person attention right so so so so that that's [00:22:59] that's [00:22:59] what is told me you know so so colombia and other schools [00:23:03] may not because there are so many people that impasonates like you [00:23:07] claiming like oh they went and if they start to releasing the statement [00:23:11] is the like giving these people attention so my question is that he also [00:23:14] now said you implied that you work for the [00:23:18] table presidency how do you respond to that? "that is totally [00:23:21] ridiculous, because i've never met anybody from tinubu [00:23:25] administration, as you know me very well, [00:23:28] like so so and i have [00:23:32] lot of integrity, so i don't this is this is [00:23:35] about reporting the fact, so this is not about [00:23:39] tinubu or anybody in Tinobu administration, and about him saying [00:23:43] that and that he has to prove it that i work for [00:23:47] administration, because i've never met anybody." corresponding [00:23:51] with them so so it's just like a trying to that's [00:23:55] another thing that serious lobbies we get is fat [00:23:58] rights okay so this is not the first time i've [00:24:02] been writing writing critical articles against [00:24:05] nigerian politicians so i've witten everything [00:24:08] against you know [00:24:12] you know even vice president you so so i've been doing [00:24:16] that so so for him to say that oh i work for administration is [00:24:20] just it's just a way to just distract from the fact because [00:24:24] he didn't want uh people to focus on the [00:24:28] truth you know so and and for him to just get [00:24:31] away like okay let me just make a more [00:24:35] force at landish claim and [00:24:37] i and i think that is that has been his static as lobbist because he has never [00:24:41] really have any track record so so for his law uh for [00:24:45] his his claim that he's going to uh file [00:24:48] a lawsuit. Yeah uh, I welcome it, [00:24:52] because he will, I will be happy because he [00:24:56] will, I will get an opportunity to depose him, and he has [00:24:59] to prove under oats that all the claims, all the [00:25:02] claims, and and he has to prove that everything in my [00:25:06] article is not based on what is in public [00:25:10] domain, so because every other other people are friend about him, [00:25:13] so he has to prove this thing that everything in that [00:25:17] article is not true and ' the bodying of [00:25:21] proof is her name to to to to the bunk all the things to [00:25:25] debunk all the claims because he has to prove like okay [00:25:28] uh did he not claim that uh [00:25:31] because that he has multiple aliasis [00:25:35] different names he did not claim that it's a professor at colombia [00:25:39] university has doctorate the did not claim he went to university of [00:25:42] edimbrah so did not claim is i mean he [00:25:46] was working on wall street during that 11 as investment bank. [00:25:50] so he has to debunk this and did he not is it not [00:25:54] true that he was convicted of domestic assault against his [00:25:58] former girlfriend i actually saw the court exactly [00:26:01] so so he asked the body of proof is on name so and and i think [00:26:04] like uh by threating this thing i'm not the kind of [00:26:08] person that can be intimidated so i welcome it [00:26:12] and he's going to be embarrassed going to be embarrassed that's very interesting you [00:26:16] know well you know it's - it's a very interesting conversation [00:26:20] and uh i i thank you for coming to inside sources and thank you for your [00:26:23] uh for the insights uh we're going to see how how it pass out now that you are [00:26:27] stating uh to go to court uh but thank you so much mr [00:26:31] dimor uh for your for your contributions and thank you for coming to inside sources, [00:26:35] thank you so much for inviting me. all right, and then you have it another edition of insight [00:26:39] sources, like we always say nigia will prevail, it means Nigeria will win, [00:26:42] partly because we will continue to push at the major issues the day. my name [00:26:46] is, thank you for watching, and by the grace of God i'll come [00:26:50] to you again at the next [00:26:52] edition. 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