Every day, Reuben Abati pontificates on ARISE TV and THISDAY (on Tuesday) owned by the king of blackmail journalism in Nigeria. With straight face, he runs down almost everyone except his paymaster(s). But only the gullible ones are deceived. Intelligent Nigerians know he is the most unlikely person to lecture on public morality today. Here is a guy who was the runningmate to the governorship candidate of the PDP in Ogun State, the late Senator Buruji Kasamu, in 2019; a man who had been indicted for narcotics trafficking in the US and was a fugitive from the law of that country until his death.
In 2015, Abati’s political mentor was involved in a dramatic standoff with joint team of NDLEA officers and U.S. anti-narcotics agents for days at his Lekki, Lagos mansion. Only a shameless man would have accepted any offer from Kashamu in 2019 and today be pontificating on morality and probity as if Nigerians have forgotten his past.
While pretending to be a dispassionate “analyst” on ARISE and penning his “chop-I-chop” column for THISDAY, the same Abati remains a card-carrying member of the PDP. Here is a man who, as Special Adviser on Media to President Goodluck Jonathan, partook in Dasukigate. He was detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in 2015 for collecting N500 million from ex – National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo, purportedly on “behalf of the media”. But no one in the media collected a kobo from Reuben Abati.
He slept in EFCC cell for several weeks until he coughed some cash as refund. It was the reason The Guardian discontinued his column.
A South South governor (name withheld) was one of those who contributed millions to the “appeal fund” before Abati was released by EFCC.
Today, he pontificates on public morality.
What a shameless hypocrite!!!
