A LESSON IN SHAMELESSNESS : THE REUBEN ABATI CASE - You measure a man not by his words but by his ability to stand by his words. What happen in just 3 years to change Abati and leaves him with a disfigured and battered moral image. Not that Abati is being denied a right to rearrange his value but, must it be done in a way that will make nonsense of simply ability to reason. One day Abati will read his history to his grandchildren in the African tradition. How will he fill the glaring and very confusing gaps between his story and the one being recorded for them by history? Any grandfather worth his name will rather be caught penniless than be caught lying. The love for easy life has done so much damage to so many people that respectability is now almost old fashioned. To people like Abati, let the dollars keep flowing while the respect keep draining. Far as they are concern, the end justify the means. Enjoy: Dame Patience must have felt compelled to be a partisan stakeholder and intercessor. She needed to put Rotimi Amaechi, the state Governor in his place and that was what she did. She recommended “pleading,” – that advice is actually meant for her. A state Governor is a duly elected official; and in a Federal system, he is not answerable to the President, and nowhere is the president granted the powers of a Headmaster over state governors. In Okrika, Dame Patience behaved so impatiently and spoke to Governor Amaechi as if he is on the staff of the Presidency. It may not be her fault though. Amaechi caused it all by bringing himself to such level by undertaking to debrief Dame Patience about his administration’s programmes and activities in the misguided hope of getting cheap political endorsement. He should have asked his wife to attend to her. When she misbehaves as she did in Okrika, she creates the impression that her husband is not in control of his own home. - Dr Reuben Abati (in 2010 before he became the special adviser to GEJ). My question to Reuben, is he still convinced the President is not in control of his home? I will assume so as there isnt any evidence to indicate he changed his 2010 opinion about the first family by withdrawing the above comments. So, why is Reuben bent on selling a man with zero ability to control his family to 170m Nigerians to take charge of their affairs?
Posted on: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 15:53:54 +0000
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