Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana has denied speaking with crossdresser, Bobrisky while in prison, and demanding for money for presidential pardon as alleged in an audio recording released by social media activist VeryDarkMan.
Speaking on Channels TV on Thursday, Falana said, “Bobrisky never spoke to me. I have never met him. I do not know him from Adam. He was alleged to have spoken to my son, Folarin (Falz),” he said.
“My son said this guy (Bobrisky) was appealing to people for assistance and called my son on May 4 or thereabout this year and said can you give me ₦3 million to be placed in a special part of the prison — we call it VIP section.“
“And my son said, ‘are you calling me under the authorisation of the superintendent of prisons?’ He said no. Then Falz said ‘don’t call me again. I’m unable to assist you to bribe the prison authorities. And be very careful, since you are already in jail for an offence. Please, if you are going to call me next time, you either do it through the superintendent, or you write a letter endorsed by the prison authorities,” he said.
He also revealed that he will not be tempted to file a criminal complaint against VeryDarkMan due to the fact that he is currently leading a campaign in West Africa for the decriminalization of Freedom of Expression.
However, he said a civil proceeding would be filed against VDM if he fails to apologize and retract the claims.
