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Yakubu Mohammed: How Abiola nearly fired Dele Giwa, Ray Ekpu and me after blockbuster Concord interview with BuhariMohammed, then editor of Concord, with Abiola on a visit to Egypt in 1983
“To underline the importance attached to the interview, some of the issues raised with him came on the network news of Radio Nigeria a few hours after the interview as policy pronouncements.“To all intents and purposes, our own publisher, ironically, was not happy with the scoop scored by his newspapers. Instead of a commendation, he gave the three of us a cold shoulder. Unknown to us, the new military regime had fenced him off and the duo of Buhari and Idiagbon were not relating with him.
“I replied to the query in only two paragraphs, admitting that we took an IOU of five thousand naira for the three of us, in the course of duty. The money was not stolen. And the outcome of the interview was celebrated even by the publisher himself. Before he got my reply, he had called me to ask about the query and I told him I was typing my reply. He felt relieved that we were individually replying to the query.
“The publisher patiently waited for me to travel out of town to do what he had wanted me to do. He called Duro Onabule, my deputy, to execute Soyinka’s transfer to Lagos, and he, without any question or hesitation, caused a letter to be sent to London asking Kayode to report in Lagos on transfer. Soyinka rejected the transfer and resigned on the spot. Peter Enahoro immediately signed him on as editor of his monthly pan-African magazine, Africa Now.
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