Reuben Abati is among the best of intellectual celebrity journalists that I have always admired over time. There’s no denying his level of his intellectualism which he has always deployed creatively in his engagements in national services. I have his many treaties which are seminal manuals in the quest for national growth. As the SA, media and Chief Press Secretary to the then President, Goodluck Jonathan, Abati gave good account of himself.
I never believed that this man I have always admired and even adorned could one day, suffer from tongue dysfunctionality, what I refer to as garrulous confusion. Nothing shows evidence of this more than his recent verbal miscarriage on the simple but reasonable views of His Excellency, Sen Hope Uzodimma, governor Imo State.
That Reuben Abati owes Arise Television which he uses to promote his political thoughts and preferences does not mean that he is more patriotic than a good number of people in the country. That people subscribe to his station, watch and listen to him as he sits out there in all magnificence, sometimes, assuming the roles of the accuser, investigator and judge does not in any way confer on him the right to abuse other people.
I had thought that Reuben Abati should have been more professional in his public utterances, see to the needs of objective/ constructive interrogations and evaluations of people’s views instead of his biasness and bitterness as he exhibited against governor Hope Uzodimma. Sadly, for Reben Abati, he lost an opportunity to be counted on the side of the clarion calls for INEC to step up their game in this digital era. His comments were devoid of reasons and logic because he spoke as the celebrity politician journalist he was known for and also, as a passerby commentator at the vendor’s stand on the street instead of the intellectual journalist.
Reuben Abati certainly needs to purge himself of his hubris. He should understand that the bane of great men like him that leads to their downfalls is excessive pride and arrogance. He should embrace the golden mean and appreciate that as a human being, he is fallible no matter his claims to the contrary and as a result, be patient to processes other people’s views, right and pass valid comments on them.
He owes governor Hope Uzodimma and Imo State people apologies for the unprovoked insults and attack on the governor and the state. This is the only way he can regain the respects of right thinking people all the over the world.