Igbokwe’s angst or complaints against Rufai Oseni of Arise TV Talkshow are well informed and are therefore sustained in my opinion.
A senior advocate of Nigeria Olisa Agbakoba, a seasoned lawyer and a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association and the Media Assistant to Onyesom Wike named Lere and one or two observers on the Social Media have said the same thing about Rufai with some justification
an elderly columnist on Social Media who writes from New York has also made the same observation without calling for the removal of the loquacious and very bright young man who could suffer the same fate with Joy Reid of MSNBC a Harvard trained alumna whose parents were born in Guyana or Chris Cuomo a Yale trained reporter on CNN who were removed from their lucrative jobs because they appear to some of their powerful critics too strident in the way and manner they try to turn their conversations in their interview with people into something like a cross examination in a law Court.
Such perceptions don’t sit too well with their critics who move against them to have them fired.
Rufai should learn some lessons from Joy Reid who is also an exceptionally bright “black” female journalist who easily became the first among her peers on MSNBC to lose her slot.
I cried for her the day I first heard the News.
The same thing could happen to Rufai Oseni who should burrow a script or learn something from Reuben Abati or from one Olayiwola Alaga of the Yoruba World Center of the premier University of Ibadan who try to be fair to both sides in doing their analysis without appearing insolent or arrogant or rude.
I still love Rufai even though I am old enough to be his father as my first son, a Nigerian-born naturalized American citizen now proudly serving in the Pentagon of the greatest and the most powerful country on Earth.
My son, a Navsl veteran with more than 25 years in uniform, was born in 1967 and could well be older than Rufai.
If Rufai is able to pay a little more attention to few of these comments and constructive criticisms , I just know in my guts and to my bones that the young man is cut out for greatness and would definitely reach the Eldorado of his Destiny, if he doesn’t block out from listening to valid criticism.
I rest my case.
Grandpa Dr. Wumi Akintide writes from New York.
