Pidom has been fully bought and paid for, now works for Nigerian government —Investigative Journalist David Hundeyin alerts Nigerians

Pidom has been fully bought and paid for, now works for Nigerian government —Investigative Journalist David Hundeyin alerts Nigerians

 

 

Prominent investigative journalist David Hundeyin has accused whistleblower Isaac Bristol Tamunobifiri, popularly known as PIDOM, of being compromised and now working for the Nigerian government.

 

This revelation comes amidst ongoing legal and political drama surrounding PIDOM’s recent arrest and subsequent release.

 

PIDOM, who gained prominence for exposing corruption and misconduct within the government, was recently arraigned on a nine-count charge filed by Inspector General of Police Kayode Egbetokun. The charges include allegations of money laundering, cybercrime, and the dissemination of classified information.

 

The case has drawn widespread public attention, with many questioning the motivations behind the charges. On Monday, police identified Hundeyin as an alleged accomplice in PIDOM’s activities.

 

 

In a series of tweets on Saturday, Hundeyin claimed PIDOM had struck a deal with the Nigerian government, leading to his release. Hundeyin argued that this alleged arrangement undermines PIDOM’s credibility as a whistleblower, urging Nigerians to view him with skepticism.

 

“PIDOM has been bought and paid for. He is no longer who he claims to be,” Hundeyin stated. He suggested that the government may have used coercion to force PIDOM into compliance, effectively silencing one of its most vocal critics.

 

David Hundenyin wrote: “Before I go any further, let me publicly confirm that the original owner of this account is in fact, the one behind it right now.”

 

“Let me also confirm publicly that this person has now been fully bought and paid for by the government. Whatever his motivations may or may not have been when he initially started doing the “anonymous whistleblower” thing, he is now 100% owned and controlled by whoever was behind his arrest in August.”

 

There are many things I could say, but I’ll just restrict myself to these few key points:

 

1. After I led the media campaign that forced the police to charge him in court instead of keeping him in the FCID dungeon, this fellow – from his cell at Kuje Prison – tried to entrap me in a scheme that would have forever destroyed my credibility and put me in legal trouble that could have followed me anywhere in the world. I trust absolutely no one, so I recorded the entire 54 minute call in the event that a day like this might come. I have uploaded the relevant 6-minute segment of it here. Another well known person here was also on this call and you can hear her voice in the recording. If she wishes to, she will identify herself.

2. The number that he used to make that call is in frame 2 below. He also used that number to reach out to multiple well wishers while he was in Kuje Prison. A contact of mine ran this number through the national SIM registration database and it turns out that it is registered to one Hassan Jibrin, whom I am made to understand is a Director at the Federal Ministry of Defense. Though I have since blocked it, I assume he is still using this number to reach out to people and solicit for money or entrap them like he tried to entrap me.”

“Whether “Hassan Jibrin” is actually a real identity or not, what I do know is that when someone facing a major national security lawsuit is remanded in prison by the government and immediately given access to a phone, and the next thing he does is to call other people he knows are being targeted by the government and start trying to get them to commit to do something illegal and unethical, I don’t need to be Albert Einstein to work out that someone is putting him up to it, and that whatever deal he was offered for his freedom most likely involved giving his captors my head in exchange for his own.”

 

3. Since we are talking about “traitors,” maybe I will release the rest of the recording where this galactic asshole lambasted Deji Adeyanju, his lawyer who was representing him pro bono, calling him a “baby lawyer” and incompetent, boasting that someone told him that “Peter Obi will hire SANs” for him. In the end, it was the same Deji who got him out on bail, after which he went and acted that drama for the cameras in the courtroom, hugging Deji as if he hadn’t destroyed him behind his back.”

 

“Let’s also talk about “traitors” who get caught by the government after doing what they say is public interest work, and then they give up everyone who gave them information or helped them. Let’s talk about the biggest traitor of 2024 who got caught up in his own web of nonsense, ended up in secret detention, and then got his brother to try to convince David Hundeyin to impersonate him, a missing person – making me an accessory to a crime in the event that he actually ended up dead, which he very nearly did.”

 

“I held my tongue since September because I felt that it was not my place to destroy this PIDOM fraud, but now that your itchy fingers have carried you to where you shouldn’t go, I’m only too happy to indulge you.”

 

“For what it’s worth, my decision to go public with PIDOM’s arrest was pme of the best decisions I made this year. You could tell from how disappointed the APC handles here were after I did it, and they started spreading that “David outed PIDOM” talking point. In reality, here’s what it did:

 

1. It’s probably the only reason that idiot is still drawing breath on this earth. The government’s intention was clearly to use him as bait and then quietly get rid of him afterward. Because he’s a dumb guyman from Port Harcourt and not the Edward Snowden he thought he was, he did not see the (obvious) reality that he was completely disposable to them, and he took whatever deal they offered him. If I had not turned Isaac Bristol into an international headline, they would have had absolutely NO reason to keep him alive when they were done with him.

 

2. It protected me from what they had planned. The idiot got his brother – or whoever that was – to give me his Twitter login details, with the express instruction to start tweeting in his voice from his account. Think about the implication of that. If I had poster even a single such tweet, with a paper trail somewhere showing that I had obtained his login details somehow, and then he was later officially declared missing or dead, do you know what that would make me? It would make me the guy who impersonated a missing or dead person, having somehow obtained his Twitter login details.”

 

“The next thing you would see is Muyiwa Adejobi on Arise TV addressing a press conference, announcing that David Hundeyin has been declared wanted for the murder of one Isaac Tamunoebifiri Bristol aka PIDOM Nigeria, and the reason is that some unnamed politicians sent 3,000 jillion dollars to PIDOM’s crypto wallet for him and Hundeyin to sponsor nationwide protests against Tinubu, and Hundeyin had a disagreement with PIDOM about how to share the money, so he arranged for him to be abducted and killed…”

 

“You dey whine Nigerian police? They would load 96 fuckeries on my head to the point where even I would have been doubting whether I was innocent. If you recall, even though this plan failed, the police still claimed in PIDOM’s court papers that he had crypto wallets containing over 37 million dollars (image below). They were 100% planning to use that as “motive” proving that “David Hundeyin murdered PIDOM.” Then they would have mobilised their social media terrorists to start pushing that agenda nonstop. You could have seen Foundational Nupe Mumu, Ridwan, etc building 5 bedroom mansions inside that Twitter agenda.”

 

“At that point, it wouldn’t matter whether anyone actually believes it or not – it would just need to be somewhat plausible. They could then use that to issue an Interpol red notice and obtain an international arrest warrant for me. Even my Ghanaian asylum and my other residencies would have been invalidated by such a thing. All because of one greedy guyman from Diobu.”

 

“Honesty and common sense is what has been saving my life all these years. That’s why my default response to everything is to go public with it. I have nothing to hide. If you want to step into this arena and fight the monsters I’ve fought, you better make sure you expunge all guyman tendencies from your soul.”

“This arena is where guymen get a bullet to the head.”

 

And one more thing.

“I have since come to understand that the entire “PIDOM” thing was completely contrived. It was a cheap gimmick for extracting donations from the public under the guise of public interest whistleblowing.”

 

“This random Port Harcourt abobi saw my work and its crowdfunding model, and as a typical Nigerian, couldn’t rest until he thought, “How can I take advantage of this and collect my own share?” That’s how he came up with the gimmick of calling himself an “investigative journalist” and threatening Nigerians every 4 market days for not sending him money.”

 

“PIDOM” was just a content creator using a successful gimmick that even I fell for at a stage (after I had spent close to a year initially ignoring him because I thought his work was crude, his persona was hubristic, and his constant threatening the public for not sending him money was suspicious).”

 

“After a while, the gimmick became so successful that the Borokiri guyman genuinely began believing that he was Nigeria’s Che Guevara, which is when he got sloppy and started making the mistakes that ultimately got him caught, like sending people his personal bank details, and using the same POS shop for all his withdrawals.”

 

See evidence of screenshot below 👇

“Now he may be out of prison, but he is effectively a prisoner forever. He can’t even physically leave Abuja. I hope the attention and the money was worth it (because there isn’t even a lot of money to be had from crowdfunding in Nigeria – I would know).”