The Chairman of Yemi Sonde Media Group, owner of the popular radio station YES FM, Yemi Sonde, has cried out to the public that a blackmailer is on his neck.
In a release issued by him in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Thursday, Sonde said the blackmailer claimed to have nude videos of him.
Sonde further said that when he demanded that the blackmailer send him a copy of the video, which he obliged him to do, it was a video of him alone on his bed in his room.
According to the ace broadcaster, the blackmailer, who claimed to live in Cote d’Ivoire, repeatedly demanded N500,000 to N1,500,000 if he wanted the video removed from social media.
The blackmailer also contacted some of the broadcaster’s friends with the video and asked them to persuade Sonde to part with the blackmail money.
Sonde said further that the blackmailer demanded to be paid urgently if the broadcaster wanted him to delete the videos and threatened to circulate them all over social media to embarrass him and his family and destroy his businesses.
Sonde said he had however told the blackmailer to go ahead with his threat and that he would not part with his hard-earned money to any blackmailer.
“I am issuing this release to let Nigerians know that some powerful individuals who are bent on destroying me have orchestrated this blackmail. I don’t know what I did to necessitate this, but I know that they will fail,” said Sonde.
The ace broadcaster, who said he had an incident the blackmail attempt with the right legal actions, said he suspected some high net-worth individuals in society who got the blackmailer to go after him, having hitherto sworn to take him down.
