Damages: Where you charged to make sure that such reports did not make it into your newspaper editorial pages?ĭr. And I think any self respecting politician should not.ĭr. Reuben Abati: If you mean the kind of garbage these online radicals dish out in the name of citizen journalism, I say yes. Damages: Reports that put him in a bad light.ĭr. Reuben Abati: What do you mean by negative reports?ĭr. Damages: Were editors asked to ensure that negative reports about Andy Uba did not make it into their newspapers?ĭr. Reuben Abati: Like what? What again? If you were thinking about loose women, there was no such thing. Like my other colleagues.ĭr Damages: Do you recall that anything unusual happened there?ĭr. Reuben Abati: I attend all kinds of parties.
Damages: So, back to the Dangote party…ĭr. Reuben Abati: (Mutters under his breath) Those savages and Neanderthals! Economic parasites in America, Europe, even Turkey!ĭr. Damages: By popular demand, villagers want you here.ĭr. Reuben Abati: I don’t want to be hot anymore! (laughter)ĭr. Reuben Abati: Why am I on the hot seat?ĭr. Their turn will come to be interviewed.ĭr. Why didn’t you ask them?ĭr Damages: Well, they’re not the ones on the hot seat. Other media big shots were there as well. If you want to hang with the big boys come home and join us.ĭr Damages: Do I take it then you attended this particular one Dangote threw for Andy Uba?ĭr. Damages: You haven’t even told me whether you were at this party?ĭr. So my man, let me devour my ripe pear.ĭr. How does your people say it, he whose pear is ripe, let him devour it. When you get the chance to enjoy, use it. Reuben Abati: Is it now a crime to attend a party in Nigeria? Or is it because it was Dangote’s party? My friend, you have to relax.
Ugochukwu Uba, were also at the affair.ĭr. I understand that Andy Uba and his brother, Dr. Since our last interview, a source contacted us and said it was important to ask about this grand party. Damages: We’ll get to land in a moment, but we’re interested for now in the Dangote party. Reuben Abati: Where are you going with this? If you do not know, big boys hang out with other big boys. Reuben Abati: I have been in the same room with him several times.ĭr Damages: There were also Bukola Saraki and Wale Babalakin.ĭr. Some workers get bush meat as perks, I get to party with VIPs.ĭr Damages: Do you remember going to this particular party which was meant to drum up media support for then “Gov.-elect” Andy Uba?ĭr. Reuben Abati: Well, for people in my position you should not be surprised at how frequently it happens.ĭr. Damages: But it is not everyday that you attend a party at Dangote’s house?ĭr. I thought I was here to talk about the land?ĭr Damages: That is secondary now. Damages’ hand and takes his seat.ĭr Damages: Let me start by asking if you were at a party at Aliko Dangote’s house on Victoria Island, Lagos?ĭr Damages: Did you attend a party thrown for Andy Uba by Aliko Dangote?ĭr. Reuben Abati walks into the stage, shakes Dr. All the way from Rutam House in Oshodi, Lagos, please give a thunderous welcome to Dr. Nobody in Africa doubts if he has a talent for writing. Our guest is a man who has written two columns a week for over fifteen years for the most respected newspaper in Africa.
So be ready for fireworks.ĭr Damages: George Bernard Shaw said that anyone who wrote a weekly column for ten years in any newspaper would become so famous that readers would never know if he or she had a talent for writing. We have arranged for extra security in case we need it. Abati and I have decided to redo the interview. Abati was accused of giving wishy-washy answers. I was accused of conducting a padi-padi interview with my friend while Dr. Abati’s people told me their polling showed that he failed to give straight answers. According to our internal polling, I failed to ask hard questions. By all indications, I failed in the last interview I had with Dr. When we were in school, when you failed a class, you were asked to repeat it. and now, here is your Tonight’s Show host, Dr.
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