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Ever since my very good friend and brother, Dr Reuben Abati was appointed as the Special Adviser, Media, to President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, I’ve had to contend with a number of issues concerning my relationship with him. Issues which, I must say, I consider quite unsavoury. The most disturbing of such issues is the one which postulates that Reuben Abati is a traitor, a betrayer and one who abandoned his friends immediately after he got the plum job at the Presidency. I was often singled out for mention as one of those betrayed by the former presidential spokesman.
My initial reaction was to simply ignore this falsehood, believing that it was just another tale that would blow away without causing any harm. But lately, I began to have a rethink, especially when I read a story in an online platform stating categorically that Reuben had shamelessly betrayed me and Ovation Publisher, Dele Momodu. And you know, when a lie is repeated over and over without being challenged, it soon begins to sound like the truth.
To start with, I do not remember complaining to anyone, living or dead, that Reuben had ever betrayed me in one way or the other. Never! It’s true that society has expectations. I recall that no sooner had Reuben Abati been announced as the presidential spokesman than my phones began to ring none stop. And I couldn’t help but wonder as to why I was getting all the attention that I got at that time. Those who knew of my closeness to Reuben called me, those who didn’t even know but who heard from somebody who also heard from somebody called me; those who had never called me sought out my phone number and called me up. My phones rang endlessly. What were they all calling me for?
Well, my friend Reuben had gotten a job at the Presidency of Nigeria where the ‘only thing they do is share money in different currencies of the world’, so they were all calling to congratulate me. Some even went as far as saying that it was my time to ‘chop and clean mouth,’ after all, my friend had been appointed and it was certain that he would put me in his portfolio and sneak me into Aso Rock. Others came up with different proposals as to how Reuben and I could become billionaires within months. For me, it was quite amusing. I listened, I smiled and I kept my cool while praying for the success of Reuben Abati on this serious national assignment.
Predictably, when days turned into weeks and weeks into months and months into years and the foregoing expectation did not turn into reality, the rumour mills went agog. The same set of people who called me up to congratulate me (as if I was the one appointed) when Reuben got the appointment, turned around to begin to spread stories of condemnation and bitterness. They became overnight historians, reminding me of so many things that they actually know nothing about.
According to them, I was the one who brought Reuben to Lagos, took him to Dr Ibe Kachikwu (Hints magazine publisher now N.N.P.C. Group Managing Director) and helped him to get a column at Hints. I was also the one who accommodated him for years before he found his feet and bla, bla, bla. They wanted me to be angry with Reuben, they wanted me to be bitter with him but even as they spoke, my indifference was clear.
What they probably forgot to add was that I was also the one who married a wife for Reuben, I was the one who helped him to sleep with his wife to bear all the children they have, I was also the one who bought him his first car and built his first house for him, I was the one who got him a job at the Guardian and even helped him to make a success of his career. Yes! I was the one who instructed President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to appoint Abati as presidential spokesman. Arrant nonsense!!!
Now, I need to tell them what they don’t know about Reuben Abati and I. Reuben and I enjoy a relationship that dates back to a time that both of us can hardly remember. But I do remember that we were kids when we first met. His parents’ house at Abeokuta was not too far from mine. And the secondary schools we attended at Abeokuta were just a stone throw from each other. As secondary school students, Reuben and I belonged to the Literary and Debating Society of our different schools and whenever the schools had a contest, Reuben and I would lead the debating teams against each other.
When I wrote my first degree project in 1986, it was to Reuben that I reached out for help when the whole thing became too complicated for me. When I got married in 1992, Reuben Abati was my Best man. When he got married later in the same year, I was the Best man. His first son, Funlade, who is now a Lawyer, shares the same birthdate of February 21st with me. His late father was my father. My late father was his father as well. After his wedding in 1992, it was to my late father that we went, straight from the venue of the wedding, for blessings.
I recall one night when Reuben and I sat on the bed with his aged father and the old man spent hours advising us and telling us that no matter what happens, we must remain brothers and friends. I recall other times when we would sit with my own father and he would shower prayers on us…Reuben Abati and I have come a long way. Even now, there are things that Reuben and I have shared that remain our closely guarded secret, between just the two of us! My relationship with Reuben Abati transcends what I can get out of him or what he can get out of me.
Having said that, if I need to reach out to him for any form of assistance, I would not think twice before doing so ditto for him! Unlike what was written in the online report, we are still very much in touch. He, it was who sent me the link of the story written about us, in that online medium. Just a few days back, I called him concerning the plan of some ex Hints staff to honour our former boss, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, who had just been appointed as Group Managing Director of N.N.P.C. A couple of years back, I fell quite ill and it was my friend who picked up the hospital bill. When my last child was born a few years back, Abati was there for my family. Recently, I reached out to him on a pressing issue and he responded with alacrity… So please, let the tales stop. Reuben Abati has never betrayed me and I don’t even see that ever happening.
True, there has been a groundswell of resentment and condemnation against Reuben Abati since he took the appointment under President Jonathan. Many can simply not come to terms with the reality that a man who’d been seen as the voice of the masses could turn around to join the establishment. Reuben’s plight, methinks, stems from the resentment against the Jonathan government. How does one function as the spokesman of such a President without receiving a backlash? Perhaps if Reuben’s appointment had come under President Buhari, the heat wouldn’t have been this intense…Who knows?
I know that there have been cases of favour seekers, sycophants and bootlickers who have gone to Reuben to bad mouth me because they believe that is the most effective way to get favours from him. Such people have come to me too, to badmouth him. They shuttle between the two of us driven by the pangs of hunger in their stomachs. But I tell you; between Reuben Abati and I that strategy won’t work…It just can’t work. Reuben Abati has never betrayed me!
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Gov Adams looking good every passing day. Iara doing great in grooming her better half for a perfect gentleman look.

It is a known fact that generally in politics power truly is vested in the people but often times people are not allowed to dictate the pace or set the tone of leadership for themselves in Africa. The self-made leaders would often take the bull by the horn regardless people's interest to get into position of power by force because they know sincere opinions may count against their selfish desires. My submission about the recent debacle in the legislative arm of govt of Nigeria is that we have a set of people that are too ambitious with a load of personal pursuit at the back of their minds giving rise to political plots amongst the legislators in order to achieve an inordinate ambition. I appreciate but marvel at the statement of Speaker Dogara who is a defectee of PDP to the ruling party that supremacy belongs to the people and no longer the party. A number of people have praised the speaker for this assertion but his display of democratic values and intelligence seems to come rather too late. If supremacy belongs to the people as it should be then he as a person should have championed this course by seeking his re-election under the less popular parties like APGA,KOWA,LABOUR etc to test his popularity. This gesture would certainly give credence to his assertion of people's supremacy ahead of party if he was able win re-election. The truth of the matter is that PDP was no longer popular and he quickly hung himself on APC which had gained so much popularity and trust (not that the speaker himself was trustworthy) to win re-election. Today he his telling another story having reaped freely where he did not sow. Party was supreme before election but people were supreme after election. My position is that supremacy belongs to God and vested in His people but a fair number of people called politicians have hijacked the said supremacy altogether AND Dogara is one of the hijackers. Nigerians are smarter and wiser than the sudden promoters of people's supremacy. We do not need to be told what we know.

If supremacy truly belongs to people in Nigerian politics Dogara should not have riden on the back of APC to win his re-election. He should have come out under any of the mushroom parties or as an independent candidate since he thinks he has that goodwill. He came to reap where he did not sow and now forming Mr. Democracy and Mr. Know it all. He is still young and I just think he should be careful at the way he talks so that he would not be trampled upon like his colleague Farouk. We are counting days, month and year when boys will be separated from men. Nonsense

Dogara is claiming to be good now on the basis regional sentiment. He did not consider that while vying for speakership that no 1and 3 men are already from the north even then against the party's interest he contested as no. 4 man making 3 of the first 4 positions (President, Senate President and Speaker) taken away by the north. He is now complaining no 2 and no 3 positions (Deputy Speaker and Majority Leader) in the house cannot come to the south. It only shows these guys are pretenders and they are only interested in their pockets. APC is in serious mess now because people bury their thinking caps ahead of their death.

Hello Pharm,
I had a terrible backpain behind my breastbone and feeling of indigestion continously for one week. In fact I felt each time I took any meal as if it stayed in my chest. Anyway I visited the hospital and I was asked by the doctor to go and have a CT scan. The test result gave my kidney and liver a pass mark but showed evidence of PUD and inflamed gallbladder. I was treated for PUD with Gestid, omeprazole, flagyl and cyprotab. I was eventually relieved of the back pain and indigestion because I now go to toilet easily. My concern now is that I still experience a burning sensation from the stomach to throat and I feeling a lump behind my throat though painless. I have exhausted the drugs I was given in the hospital. Does it mean I have to continue using the drug? I had already met a General Surgeon who told me I should visit him after six months, if my backpain continues as I was concerned about the gallbladder issue. For now no serious backpain

Belated election winning tactic. CHANGE = constank K

Dear Dr in the house, please does the ffl semenalysis result warrants a vericosele operation as advised by my gyn.
Volume 3ml,
viscosity-normal
appearance-white opaque,
consistency-viscous,
liquifaction-30mins,
ph-8.0,
fructose test-positive,
semen count-20.0mill/ml,
prog motile-40%,
slug motile-20%,
non motile-40%,
abnormal forms-10%,
agglutination-present,
pus cells-3-4hpf,
RBC- absent,
epithelial cells 1-2hpf,
macrophages- occassional
Organism isolated- Citrobacter freundii. Be grateful for your response.

This is more like it and I am sure her family will appreciate this gesture if it is eventually approved. I am also of the opinion that every other dead person that participated one way or the other in the treatment of the index case should be remembered. Any of them could have done what Adedavor did if he/she were in her position, who knows. We should appreciate their galantary and sacrifice. For example, Nurse Ejelonu was a newly employed nurse before she met her fate. As Dr. Adedavoh is remembered, I suggest probably some streets or garages in Lagos be named after our heroes and heroines. God Bless every Lagosian, God Bless Lagos State, God Bless Nigeria.

The latest news is that Yaradua's AGF has been moved to the ministry of Special Duties while Kayode Adetokunbo formerly of Labour ministry now the new AGF. Power sweet Ooooooo, so Jonathan can fire and hire now.

Guys, where is Segun Adeniyi? That Yaradua's tall baboon. The runaway guy with Turai left the poor Dora to face the wahala they created. Nigerians are no fools. Not again!! .

Thank you Dora for making nigerian women proud. When will all these fat cowards learn any lesson. NIGERIA CAN ONLY GET TO THE PROMISE LAND IF ONLY WE CAN SPEAK THE TRUTH ALWAYS,

The guy has done his own bit by taking Mali to the nations cup. Afterall reknown coaches in the world have been sacked too. I congratulate you man Keshi. Pls come back home and enjoy dem pepper. Who knows you can get a better offer from Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester united,  to their dismay.