The Ace Broadcaster and the Chairman of Yemi Sonde Media Group, owner of popular Radio Station in Ibadan, YES FM, Yemi Sonde has issued a statement over a blackmail attempt while claiming some powerful individuals are behind this act bents to destroy him.
Yemi Sonde, in the statement on Tuesday explained that a blackmailer who claimed to have the nude video of the Broadcaster threatened to expose it on social media platforms if the YES FM Chairman refuses to pay some certain amount.
According to him, “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”.
Yemi Sonde who said he demanded that the blackmailer should send him a copy of the video which he obliged, saw that it was a video of him alone on his bed in his room.
While the blackmailer claimed to live in Cote d’Ivoire, repeatedly demanded sums of N500,000 to N1,500,000, from the Broadcaster, also contacted some of his friends with the said video, asking them to prevail on him to part with the blackmail money.
The YES FM Chairman 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.
The ace broadcaster who said he had incidented 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.
