Ibadan-based broadcaster Yemi Sonde on Tuesday raised an alarm that someone was blackmailing him over some nude videos.
Sonde, who is the chairman of Yemi Sonde Media Group, owner of the radio station YES FM, said in a statement that the blackmailer sent him a video of him alone in his bedroom when he requested to see the nude video.
According to him, the blackmailer, who claimed to live in Cote d’Ivoire, had repeatedly demanded sums of money which ranged from N500,000 to N1.5 million from him if he wanted the video to be kept off social media.
He said the blackmailer also contacted some of his (Sonde’s) friends with the video to force Sonde to part with the blackmail money.
The broadcaster further said that the blackmailer demanded to be paid urgently or the video would be circulated all over social media in order to embarrass him, his family, and destroy his businesses.
“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 broadcaster added, “I suspect some high net-worth individuals in society who got the blackmailer to go after me, having hitherto sworn to take me down.”