Adaobi Rita Uchegbu
This is matters arising from Adaobi Kate
Uchegbu’s attempt to tarnish the image of the Femi Fani-Kayode in a documentary
uploaded on YouTube recently. Adaobi is an All Progressives Congress (APC)
chieftain who is a part of their communication experts, whereas Femi Fani-kayode
is the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) spokesman for the 2015 campaign.
When we watched this documentary we wondered
if she did not know it seemed too obvious she was out to do a job. What we do
not known however is whether she knew that while she attempted to point one
finger at Fani-Kayode that she ended up with three pointed at herself.
Recall that yesterday we promised an
analysis of the documentary she allegedly produced with the help of Sahara
Reporters agents. What we did here is to give you a verbatim quote from the
documentary transcript she made, make comments where necessary, as well as ask
a lot of questions.
Please
relax and read on….
Adaobi
Uchegbu: I was one of
the ladies Chief Fani-Kayode spoke about in 2013 August, when he spoke about 3
Igbo women he allegedly had intimacy with… as at that time I did not feel a
need to respond to him because I knew it was drugs talking.
Our
comment: the fact is
that in 2013, Adaobi actually responded by exonerating Fani-Kayode of tribalism
allegation. (It was the tribalism allegation that prompted Fani-Kayode to say
he was intimate with three Igbo ladies and thus could not have harboured tribal
sentiments). Adaobi went on to say in 2013 that she will always defend Fani-Kayode.
But that she was too busy with political activity in Anambra then to deny,
defend, accept, or discuss the other issue of having intimacy with him.
Questions
for Adaobi: why did you
not tell us that it was “drugs talking” then in August 2013? Why did you have
to wait 17 months after to tell us it was “drugs” and not Fani-Kayode that
talked?
Femi Fani-Kayode
Adaobi:
the reason why I am
speaking now is because Fani-Kayode has turned himself into the enemy of the
Nigerian State. The Fani-Kayode that I know is a man of unstable character. This
is a man I know as my boss from 2002 – 2006. The Fani-Kayode that I know is a
very serious and serial paedophile. He has no scruples sleeping with a woman of
15, 16, 17. When we were working as SA (Special Assistant) to Obasanjo, he
would always go to Sheraton (hotel) at night to carry all these girls that wear
Hausa dresses. He always picked the ones of very young age.
Read
Adaobi’s Response to Fani-Kayode in 2013: “I met Chief Fani-kayode at a PDP presidential rally at
Eagle's Square in 2003. And when Chief Fani-kayode became the Special Assistant
to the president on Public Affairs, I
became one of his many aides. I will not deny the fact that it was in Chief
Fani-Kayode's office that I had my first experience in politics. It was in
Chief Fani-Kayode's office that I learnt the gift of eloquence and public
writing. I learnt from Chief Fani-Kayode the virtue of being loyal to your
boss. And most of all I learnt the ability to be determined and show love to my
country Nigeria.”
Our
comment: what has
changed since Adaobi made this comment? Is it just because Fani-Kayode went
back to his party the PDP and Adaobi joined the APC? How come Adaobi has suddenly
remembered (or is it conjured?) that Fani-Kayode was involved with under-aged prostitutes
after defending him so strongly? Someone had mischievously suggested to us that
Adaobi may be sulking that Fani-Kayode may no longer favour a certain overaged
or aging prostitute.
We are sincerely shocked to even hear
that a “15, 16, 17” year old could go to Sheraton to hawk herself. We are wont
to say that age does not convey virtue or innocence on anyone. The Bible
similarly says in Wisdom 4:7 that the “length of day is not what makes age
honourable, nor number of years the true measure of life…untarnished life, this
is ripe old age.”
However, the important question for
Adaobi is: if you know all these to be true since 2002 – 2006 why did you keep
quiet? If you know all these to be true why did you choose to defend him rather
than expose him at the auspicious time he said he had intimate relationship
with you? What has changed? What is the change? Is this the change?
Adaobi:
Fani-Kayode is a man
who must smoke weed and a quantity of cocaine. When I talk about it he said
this is what keeps him sane. He’s a man I know that has a long track record of
domestic violence. He has no scruples in hitting a woman. He has hit me before.
He has hit many numbers of girls whom I have seen him with.
Our
comment: Adaobi should
think through what she said. Your boss was doing drugs in your presence, and
the only thing you could do was to ask him “why”, after that you were okay with
his reason. Is this what you want us to believe Adaobi? That same boss you say beats
you up and you were okay with for 4 years you worked with him? You neither called
the cops nor spoke to a lawyer? And you say you are a “prominent Igbo woman”? Someone
who watched your documentary remarked to us that you probably take the Nigeria
public as stupid. You said in the documentary that Fani-Kayode on “more than
one occasion slaps me here and there.” And you did nothing “prominent Igbo
woman”? We verily suspect that Adaobi might either be dishonest, mischievous,
or both!
Adaobi
then went on to make so
many creative allegations against Fani-Kayode. She says he was so protective of
his daughters to the extent that she suspects incest. What else would a
political jobber not say to tarnish an image? Adaobi then seems to go on to open
the doors for all manner of eventualities. She says that Fani-kayode had
threatened that any time she exposes any of these “he was gonna get me or any
member of my family.” So if any of her enemies or Fani-Kayode’s opponents
latches on this to “get” her it can be hung on Fani-Kayode’s shoulders she
expects?
If you read our earlier rejoinder to
Adaobi’s 2013 response to Fani-Kayode, her new propaganda documentary did
nothing to alleviate our opinion that she is rather a dimwit. And this sheds
light on the character of the APC propaganda machine. The APC propaganda
machine seems to be making the mistake of hurrying to “retaliate” or “catch up”
to the documentary on Pa Buhari and Pa Tinubu - the two icons of the gerontocratic
political party.
We do not however see any problem with
APC coming up with their own documentary as we see healthy debates as enhancing
our democracy. We however think that every debate should dwell on issues and
policies that will enhance the common good. Personality slurs of the nature Adaobi
embarked on is rather the stuff of puerile politics.
She did not even bother to show a single
evidence of her claims. We seriously wonder how her parents, siblings and other
relatives would bat their eyelids while they watched her smear documentary
video.
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