On Aug 30, 2025, at 12:31 AM, 'Nebukadineze Adiele' via ||NaijaObserver|| <naijao...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Accursed thieving son of Lawrence Anini, Femi Olajide,Have I not asked you to leave my name off your filthy fingers, why did you and your thieving filthy master, Afis Afọnshi Odidere, mention my name again? What is so wrong with you idiots that you cannot leave Nebu off your wretched minds, does mentioning my name make you human enough to be reckoned by your fellow street thugs? If you cannot read what I write, don't respond to it with your ignorance, lies, and distortions -- that is the least you can do to respecting yourselves from ill-education's shame.The thoughtless filthy thug, Afis Afọnshi Odidere, showcased his illiteracy as usual by discussing a matter that allegedly took place between him and his lawyer, without knowing that he has just waived his attorney-client privilege, which would allow that lawyer, assuming he knows about these forums and this stupid utterance of Afis', to defend himself by releasing whatever information he knows about the credit card thief. If he did that, this stinking hypocrite would say that he did it because he was Igbo, not because he (Afis) maligned him and waived his attorney-client privilege in the process -- and dumb asses like Dockyards pirate Femi Olajide would line behind his massive filthy back in support of idiocy.The shocking thing is that this piece of shitty Afis lied against the lawyer because no judge would dismiss a case because a lawyer wrote 14 pages. Lawyers are trained to read and write voluminously; your first assignment as a law student could entail reading a 500-page material and writing voluminously in summarizing or critiquing what you read -- doing so continues throughout law school and through your career; it becomes a treasured and admirable skill, except to stark illiterates. If you can't read and write voluminously, you'd better learn doing so quickly or pursue a different career path.Afis lies so stupidly that one doubts that he ever owned a rental property. He wrote that he hired the lawyer to file a counter claim against a tenant. It means that the lawyer would reintroduce the case to the judge, so that the judge doesn't rely solely on the tenant's introduction, which might not be accurate to his client's liking; he would impeach the tenant's claims citing case laws or statutes/regulations; he would indicate why his client is correct and why the tenant's claims should not be sustained. This would take at least 14 pages; no judge would ask him to go and get "a prepared ready-to-use form" to suffice as a counterclaim for which a client paid a lawyer to prepare based on that specific case. These forums seem to be Afis life, that's why he comes here to wow dumb asses like Femi Olajide with stupid stories, which they buy thoughtlessly.Again, Afis Odidere and gang: don't mention my name, don't comment on whatever I write, block me, just as I have blocked you. I don't want to have any dealings with you idiots who act like uneducated agberos of Ajegunle.Nebukadineze Adiele--On Friday, August 29, 2025 at 10:08:45 PM EDT, femi Olajide <olajid...@yahoo.com> wrote:Oga Afis,
Very true. That, I concur with depiction of Nebu the bullshitter!
Regards,
Femi Olajide
On Friday 29 August 2025 at 18:56:35 GMT+1, 'Afis Deinde' via ||NaijaObserver|| <naijao...@googlegroups.com> wrote:--“ I just noticed 'using' missing between 'yourself' and 'pseudonym'.”……Alagba Olajide.Alagba, it’s still good and funny. It goes with what I have stated about Nebu, writing 23 pages of nothingness.I remember an Igbo that I contracted to file a counterclaim against a tenant.This ambulance chaser wrote about 14 pages to the court. The judge denied it and gave him 14 days to go file whatever appropriate paperwork he was supposed to file.Meanwhile I went to the courthouse to verify what he filed and why it was taking too long.When I saw what he sent to the judge, my heart failed me and I started holding my chest shouting “I go die o!”, like Sanford in that tv show Sanford and son.Apparently all the jekojeko igbo lawyer supposed to file was a prepared ready-to-use form, that the clerks would have given him.I took the form and checked the boxes, Yes or No. That’s all, no epistles needed.Few days later I went to court and case dismissed.Nebu always reminds me of those igbo lawyers I had used and discarded due to incompetence.😂😂😂AfisSent from my iPhoneWho’s promising you all things, heaven on earth?Lemme guess, a naked man with his hands in his pockets!On Aug 29, 2025, at 8:25 AM, 'femi Olajide' via ||NaijaObserver|| <naijao...@googlegroups.com> wrote:Oga Afis,
I just noticed 'using' missing between 'yourself' and 'pseudonym'.
Regards,
Femi Olajide
--On Friday 29 August 2025 at 13:21:50 GMT+1, Afis Deinde <odide...@yahoo.com> wrote:“ Nebu, Too long post to explain yourself pseudonym while accusing Kayusee of same.
I can't be bothered to readyourlong post. It's bound to be nonsensical.”……Alagba Olajide.😂😂😂AfisSent from my iPhoneWho’s promising you all things, heaven on earth?Lemme guess, a naked man with his hands in his pockets!On Aug 29, 2025, at 1:23 AM, 'femi Olajide' via ||NaijaObserver|| <naijao...@googlegroups.com> wrote:Nebu,
Too long post to explain yourself pseudonym while accusing Kayusee of same.
I can't be bothered to readyourlong post. It's bound to be nonsensical.
Regards,
Femi Olajide
--On Wednesday 27 August 2025 at 15:17:14 GMT+1, 'Nebukadineze Adiele' via ||NaijaObserver|| <naijao...@googlegroups.com> wrote:>>How could one take you seriously when you surreptitiously criticized Kayusee while you're committing the same offence.If writing with a pseudonym is a crime, then you're criminal-in-chief!<< (Femi Olajide)Femi Olajide,A properly educated person, when left with making a deduction based on given information, does not elect the most implausible deduction if more sensible and relevant deductions could be made. In other words, if I write that "Obi is a boy", a properly educated person would deduce that Obi is Igbo and is male. Of course, that doesn't rule out a plausibility that Obi couldn't be Igbo and could be transgender, but these are remote possibilities that would only set in if there are facts in my sentence that eliminated Obi's being Igbo and male. This is the default thought process for properly educated people, not exercising it at all times puts a question mark on the one's education, maturity, and objectivity.Nothing in my sentence could lead a reasonable and properly educated person to draw a conclusion to the effect that Nebu criticized Kayusee for: (a) using pseudonym, (b) committing a crime as a result of his pseudonym usage, or that (3) Nebu sees anything criminal or wrong with using a pseudonym. To the contrary, the fact that Nebu is a pseudonym automatically eliminated any all of these conclusions that you drew, were you writing as an educated and objective person.In the piece that I responded, pastor Ọkala concurred with Deranged Ape that Generals Togun, Akilu, et al murdered Dele Giwa in 1986 using a parcel bomb. I knew that this allegation was litigated and investigated reasonably without the courts and investigators reaching that conclusion, so I cautioned Ọkala against expressing such a lie when he first expressed it on August 19, 2025 -- it is defamatory-actionable in 2025, even though Ọkala resides in London. Ọkala ignored my caution and repeated the lie (notice that I am calling it a lie -- because he was made aware that it is not factual, yet he repeated it -- evidence of malice and willful/intentional defamation).Yesterday, I accidentally ran into this interview that General Togun granted to journalist Edmund Obilor, where he revealed (also through his published book that no one has refuted) that Gani Fawehinmi prosecuted him and others for Giwa's murder but a competent court acquitted them of the charge; they were investigated by multiple government investigative bodies and private detectives without anyone of them concluding that he and others murdered Dele Giwa; that he and Akilu sued Fawehinmi for libel and won -- Fawehinmi paid the judgment amount. A properly educated person would deduce that I was, again, alerting Ọkala to the risk of getting sued in Nigeria or in London (if Togun has a presence in London) since he is a known quantity, unlike it would be with a pseudonym.Togun's suing Ọkala would be straightforward -- he doesn't even have to read Ọkala's piece, a hungry lawyer (ambulance chasing) in Nigeria or in London could alert him to this publication, and based on his prior victories in court over this matter, he will easily prevail in a defamation lawsuit over Ọkala in Nigeria, London, or in both places. With a pseudonym, Togun will first find out where the pseudonym resides (this will cost a lot of money from private investigators and drag on for years -- ISPs will not reveal their information because of court precedents), he will have to go to that city and file a court case (at an appropriate court, not just any court) to remove the constitutional protection of anonymity or to sue the pseudonym (it is usually difficult for courts to grant) before even suing Deranged Ape for defamation.A properly educated and objective person would have deduced that I was reemphasizing my cautioning of Ọkala against defaming Togun; I was emphasizing that a court case against him, a known quantity, would be easier carried out than would one contemplated against Deranged Ape, since it is a pseudonym (see my reasons above). A properly educated person would have deduced that, since I have written exhaustively (even citing case laws) on the appropriateness, constitutionality, and usefulness of pseudonym usage, I could not have suddenly implied that Kayusee was committing a crime in using a pseudonym. I often wonder how and where you folks obtained your education, assuming that you are educated to any level above high school. Did you write essays in college; did you study English up to two levels at all; did you write dissertations; did you study literature; did you debate in college, etc.? You guys lack the discipline and attention fitness to reading more than two paragraphs, yet when you are addressed in a short piece that demands deductive reasoning, you display abject illiteracy and immaturity.Incredible!Nebukadineze AdieleOn Wednesday, August 27, 2025 at 04:30:51 AM EDT, femi Olajide <olajid...@yahoo.com> wrote:Nebu Nebu Nebu,
How many times did I call you? Three, I guess.
Since when did writing under a pseudonym being a crime in your books?
You accuse Kayusee of what you openly alluded that you're doing yourself.
"Kettle calling pot......come in pot.
How could one take you seriously when you surreptitiously criticized Kayusee while you're committing the same offence.
If writing with a pseudonym is a crime, then you're criminal-in-chief!
Regards,
Femi Olajide
On Wednesday 27 August 2025 at 03:38:33 GMT+1, 'Nebukadineze Adiele' via ||NaijaObserver|| <naijao...@googlegroups.com> wrote:--Not only were Togun et al acquitted of the accusation of murdering Dele Giwa by a high court, he and Akilu sued Gani Fawehinmi, who had peddled that allegation and prosecuted them for defamation, and won. Fawehinmi, being a gentleman, paid the judgment that they obtained from the lawsuit. Be careful, Chukwuemeka Ọkala, in repeating the rumors of a nonentity like the Deranged Ape who writes under a pseudonym.Nebukadineze AdieleOn Tuesday, August 19, 2025 at 03:23:13 PM EDT, Imperial <imperi...@yahoo.com> wrote:Kayusee & NebuAnother widely spread rumor was that Dele Giwa was allegedly killed by the Greek owner of Flour Mills of Nigeria, Mr. George Guomantaros, for blackmailing.Sent from my iPhoneOn 19 Aug 2025, at 19:17, Kayode Adebayo <kayu...@yahoo.com> wrote:Most Gullible Pastor In The World Called Emeka Okala:"If he had a hand in the elimination of Dele Giwa, was he also planning to eliminate Ray Ekpu and Dan Agbese" Gullible Pastor Called Emeka OkalaYakubu Mohammed doesn't have to plan to eliminate Ray Ekpu and Dan Agbese to have a hand in the murder. While he might not physically participate in the murder of Dele Giwa, he knew Babangida, Akilu, Togun killed Dele Giwa, but decided to cover it up, because Babangida and Akilu were his fellow Northerners and wanted to protect and absorb them of the murder. Writing and publishing his book right after Babangida's book is not a coincidence or accident. It is deliberate and intentional to give credence to all the lies told by Babangida in his book about the murder.If you can think critically and ponder to answer all the questions I posed to you in my previous email, may be you will begin to get a clue to Yakubu Mohammed's involvement to cover up for Akilu and Babangida.Unfortunately, you are too gullible and too blind to answer them.Kayode
On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM, Chukwuemeka Okala<reu...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:Quote"You crack me up Chief Okala.What does a business partner has to gain in Nigeria with flimsy laws, if his partner croaks?That’s hilarious!!😂😂😂The noble Afis DeindeA lot he can gain!UquoteComment:Afis,,Newswatch was not a dual ownership venture between Dele Giwa and Yakubu Mohammed. If it were, maybe, I would have given your line of reasoning a thought. But Newswatch was an enterprising venture owned by FOUR media titans, among whom were Dele Giwa, Ray Ekpu, Dan Agbese and Yakubu Mohammed in that order. Hierarchically, Yakubu Mohammed was the fourth among the shareholders.If he had a hand in the elimination of Dele Giwa, was he also planning to eliminate Ray Ekpu and Dan Agbese to prop up his equity in the business or what? What did he stand to gain by killing his bosom friend and business partner in a concern that was owned by FOUR investors, where he had the least equity?Remember, we are not talking about the lawlessness of the Nigerian society of today. We are talking about the era when human life had value in Nigeria until the trio of Babangida, Akilu and Togun introduced elimination by letter bomb. They, (the trio) desrve a lot!Please stop reasoning like Kayode Adebayo whose thought system is too shallow to be taking seriously.Have a good one. MekaEmeka Reuben OkalaLondon, UK"Faith and reason are not necessarily opposed. But when reason won't take you another step, faith keeps on going because it connects you to God."On Tuesday 19 August 2025 at 15:52:03 BST, 'Afis Deinde' via ||NaijaObserver|| <naijao...@googlegroups.com> wrote:“ What does he stand to gain in the elimination of his business partner and bosom friend? ”…….Chief Okala.A lot he can gain!You crack me up Chief Okala.What does a business partner has to gain in Nigeria with flimsy laws, if his partner croaks?That’s hilarious!!😂😂😂AfisSent from my iPhoneWho’s promising you all things, heaven on earth?Lemme guess, a naked man with his hands in his pockets!On Aug 19, 2025, at 8:23 AM, 'Chukwuemeka Okala' via ||NaijaObserver|| <naijao...@googlegroups.com> wrote:"What an imbecile and killer in the house called Yakubu Mohammed. Dele Giwa did not know that some of his friends in Newswatch were his enemy." - Kayode Adebayo.Comment:Kayode Adebayo,I'm persuaded and have always been that the trio of Babangida, Akilu and Togun murdered Dele Giwa with a parcel bomb. But for you to accuse Yakubu Mohammed of having a hand in the elimination of his beloved colleague and very close partner, that borders much on nonsensicality and idiocy! What does he stand to gain in the elimination of his business partner and bosom friend?You may perhaps take back that meaningless accusation. Meka.Emeka Reuben OkalaLondon, UK"Faith and reason are not necessarily opposed. But when reason won't take you another step, faith keeps on going because it connects you to God."--On Monday 18 August 2025 at 18:58:30 BST, Kayode Adebayo <kayu...@yahoo.com> wrote:Liar Called Yakubu Mohammad:"So, Ime Umanah gave Akilu’s phone numbers to Giwa. On our return to Lagos, Dele made the acquaintance of Akilu and reported to us how friendly Akilu was. But he did not miss the opportunity to tell the director of Military Intelligence that, though he was humble and decent, each time his boys (security men) came for us, they did not show respect. Dele Giwa told us that he had extracted a promise from Akilu: From then onwards, said Akilu, they would not rough-handle him or any of his colleagues. If they did, he said, Giwa should not hesitate to inform him." -- Yakubu MohammedThis is where lie meets the truth. To say Dele Giwa who complained about Akilu and his men bombarding him and other members of Newswatch liked Akilu and said good things about him is outright lie. Dele never at any time before his death made complements about Akilu. As a matter of fact, he knew his life was in danger due to Akilu persistent and use of his men to terrorize him. He just didn't know they would use parcel bomb to eliminate him.The day Babangida contracted with Mossad to train the SSS, I knew he was up to no good. He used the Mossad to obtain the parcel bomb which only the Mossad uses at the time to eliminate their enemies.What an imbecile and killer in the house called Yakubu Mohammed. Dele Giwa did not know that some of his friends in Newswatch were his enemy.Kayode
On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM, Kayode Adebayo<kayu...@yahoo.com> wrote:It was Karma that got rid of Maryam Babangida. She was part of the conspiracy. Karma is inescapable.Kayode
On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 12:57 PM, Kayode Adebayo<kayu...@yahoo.com> wrote:This pathetic liar called Yakubu Mohammad waited all these years like Babangida after virtually all the victims, witnesses and participants are dead to lie and denied who killed Dele Giwa and Gloria Okon. Babangida persuaded him to lie for him. I'm 100% sure with a doubt that Babangida, Akilu and Togun conspired and indeed killed both of them with the aid of the Isreali Mossad.They orchestrated the delivery of the parcel bomb to eliminate Dele Giwa and got rid of Gloria Okon who was a witness to Mariam Babangida's Cocaine business. Where is Maryam Babangida today and the way she died? They need to ask themselves.Unfortunately, everyone them will die and face the judgment of God when the time comes. They can lie all they want. It’s inevitable and inescapable.KayodeYakubu Mohammed finally opens up on IBB, Dele Giwa, Gloria Okon — and the parcel bomb
The CableYakubu Mohammed, one of the founding editors and directors of Newswatch, has finally opened up on the assassination of Dele Giwa, the editor-in-chief of arguably Nigeria’s most successful weekly newsmagazine.
After Giwa was killed via a parcel bomb on October 19, 1986, there were strong rumours that he was investigating the death of Gloria Okon in police custody.
The young Nigerian lady was arrested in Kano and was supposedly a drug courier for the powers-that-be.
She died mysteriously, according to the grapevine, because she was about to reveal names that would have implicated the military president, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB), and his wife, Maryam.
However, there was another version of the rumour that Okon did not die but was surreptitiously flown to the UK.
It was rumoured that Giwa had discovered her whereabouts and had travelled to interview her in London.
He was about to publish the story when he was assassinated, according to the rumour which spread like fire in the wild.
Abubakar Tsav, the senior officer who investigated Giwa’s murder, seemed to support the rumour when he appeared before the Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission in 2001.
IT WAS ALL A HOAX, SAYS MOHAMMED
Nearly 39 years after the assassination and the Okon rumour, Mohammed, who was the executive editor of the magazine styled as “the TIME magazine of Nigeria”, has declared in his upcoming memoir, ‘Beyond Expectations’, that it was a hoax which, unfortunately, prevented a proper investigation of the gruesome incident.
An advance copy of the book, published by MayFive Media, was shared with TheCable.
He said some people who had an axe to grind with Babangida pursued a narrow narrative and that eventually impacted the investigation.
Mohammed wrote: “And who, I must ask, killed Dele Giwa? This question that sounded sonorously like an anthem of sorrow when it was first asked pitifully across the country and was sustained in nearly everybody’s lips for a long while has remained the same today, even in its tamed and almost muted form, lacking in its original vigour and gravitas.
“It has remained so because nearly four decades after, the search for Giwa’s killers has not yielded any definitive results. And that is because the search had been mired in controversies, occasioned by sporadic eruptions of conspiracy theories, some more ridiculous and ludicrous than others, but conspiracy theories all the same.
“All the controversies which gave birth to a myriad of conspiracy theories centred around the following personalities. Some peripheral issues were raised and were discounted and I don’t need to go into them here. The ones that attract my attention also happen to be the dominant ones like Gloria Okon, the alleged drug courier, who was arrested in Kano and who was reported to have died in custody.
“The Gloria Okon theory is woven around Military President Ibrahim Babangida’s alleged interest, or lack of it, in the death and resurrection of the fictional character called Gloria Okon. Linked with the Gloria Okon theory was the wild but baseless speculation as to why Kayode Soyinka, the London bureau chief of Newswatch, was in Nigeria at the material time and why, of all places, he stayed with Dele Giwa when the bomb exploded. Another one has to do with Colonel (Haliru) Akilu (director of military intelligence) and the series of telephone calls preceding the delivery of the parcel bomb. Who initiated the call and who made the last call?”
Mohammed said many people have continued to ask these questions at various times “and we made attempts to answer them and clarify the issues to the best of our knowledge. But the controversy goes on and the questions continue to agitate the minds of segments of society, especially those who seem to know us at Newswatch more than we know ourselves”.
NOBODY EVER HEARD OF GLORIA OKON’
Was Giwa doing a story on Okon? Did he interview her in London? Were the tapes, along with pictures taken at the interview, brought to Lagos by Soyinka?
Mohammed further wrote: “In discussing these theories, I am mindful of the fact that I am accountable to only God, my creator. My religion which is Islam teaches me that I should at all times bear witness truthfully even if it is against myself. Whatever I say here has been said before, one way or the other, but where I was a personal witness, I make bold to say it as I know it. And this is not an attempt on my part to pass judgment or exonerate anybody.
“To start with, I know, for a fact, that Newswatch was not planning to do any story on Gloria Okon, not by any of our reporters. Not by any of the editors and not by any of the directors – Dele (Giwa), Ray (Ekpu), Dan (Agbese) and yours sincerely, Yakubu (Mohammed).
“At Newswatch, we had two levels of editorial conferences: the General Conference open to all reporters and the Editorial Board where we discussed cover stories and this was open to only editors. The general conference was held on Thursdays. It was compulsory for each reporter to come to the conference with not less than three story ideas and be prepared to defend them. Any of the four of us present would preside over it. At the initial stage, it was presided over by Dele Giwa as editor-in-chief. Later on, he excused himself, leaving any one of the three of us to handle it.
“Bose Lasaki was a relatively new staff who was determined to learn the ropes. One day at the general editorial conference, she said she had a story idea. She muttered some words to the effect that there was a rumour that the drug courier that was arrested in Kano and was reported dead, did not die but was alive. Her colleagues laughed at her suggestion and she appeared visibly embarrassed.
“Dan, who conducted the meeting, saved the day by advising her to do more work on her idea and report back the following week. When she reported back the following week, she admitted that there was nothing to that story. And that was the end of the matter.”
Mohammed said Ekpu and Giwa were not at any of the meetings and possibly did not even know about the “apparent fable”.
“Until the tragic death of Dele, nobody heard anything again about Gloria Okon. But she came alive as the possible reason why Dele Giwa was killed. Dele was said to have travelled to London some weeks before his death and interviewed Gloria Okon. According to this story, it was Kayode Soyinka who brought the stories and the pictures to Lagos and Dele and Kayode were looking at the pictures when the lethal parcel landed,” he recounted.
“The fact is that Dele Giwa did not meet any Gloria Okon on the trip in question. I know this for sure because I travelled with him to London. It is difficult to fathom how Gloria Okon came to the centre stage in Dele’s travails. She did not feature in the four-point allegations the SSS made against him when he was invited for interrogation. Surprisingly, a former police commissioner, Abubakar Tsav, told the Human Rights Violations Investigation Commssion, popularly called the Oputa panel, set up in 1999, 13 years after the event, that the SSS asked Dele Giwa if he published or was about to publish any story on Gloria Okon. If he published? If he published it, they would know; wouldn’t they have read it? This fiction was supposed to be the fifth item on the security men’s menu when they interrogated Giwa at their Awolowo Road Office.”
‘WHY GIWA AND I TRAVELLED TO LONDON’
Contrary to the rumour that Giwa went to London to interview Okon, Mohammed said the visit was to see Ime Umanah, the chairman of the board of directors, Newswatch Communications Limited, who had an accident.
Mohammed recalled: “He was flown to London for treatment. At this point, we at Newswatch were planning to buy our own printing press and we had located one in the suburbs of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. It was decided that Dele and I should travel there to inspect the press and explore the possibility of acquiring it. We booked our flight through London to spend some time with our chairman in London in September 1986.
“In London, we both stayed in Umanah’s house off Bayswater Road. Every day, we commuted between his house and the Cromwell Hospital, where he was on admission, to keep him company.
“For about five days that we spent there, Dele did not leave my sight for a moment. We spent each day in the hospital until we travelled to Amsterdam. Kayode Soyinka, who normally played host to us on such occasions, was in the USA on a Newswatch assignment.”
THE ‘ROLE’ OF AKILU
One of the major conspiracy theories at the time was that shortly before the parcel bomb was delivered to Giwa, Colonel Akilu had called to make sure the famed journalist was home before the mysterious dispatch rider dropped the deadly message.
Mohammed has now narrated the circumstances around Akilu’s call.
“Before we left London for Amsterdam, Ime Umanah advised Giwa to get close to Akilu, his friend, to widen the base of contacts,” he wrote. “Hitherto, Giwa had a close relationship mainly with Aliyu Gusau and he was always saying nice things about this officer. So, Ime Umanah gave Akilu’s phone numbers to Giwa. On our return to Lagos, Dele made the acquaintance of Akilu and reported to us how friendly Akilu was. But he did not miss the opportunity to tell the director of Military Intelligence that, though he was humble and decent, each time his boys (security men) came for us, they did not show respect. Dele Giwa told us that he had extracted a promise from Akilu: From then onwards, said Akilu, they would not rough-handle him or any of his colleagues. If they did, he said, Giwa should not hesitate to inform him.
“Apparently acting on (minister of information) Tony Momoh’s advice on that fateful day after the visit to SSS and the interrogation, Giwa had called Akilu to intimate him about what happened at the SSS office. He did not get Akilu on the phone but he left a message for him. Akilu did not call back until Saturday, by which time, he got only Funmi, Giwa’s wife, who told him that her husband was not at home. She advised him to call the Newswatch office number. He did but nobody picked it and Akilu reported back to the wife. That was the Saturday when media executives, including Dele, spent nearly the whole day in Victoria Island at a luncheon with the bank chief Adeosun and later at a get-to-know-you meeting in the Vice-President’s house.
“On Sunday, the morning of doomsday, Funmi had laid breakfast for her husband and Soyinka in the study with a note that Akilu called twice on Saturday. Funmi said she wrote the note instead of delivering Akilu’s message verbally because she and the husband had a small issue and were not talking to each other for about one week.
“Dele told Kayode that Akilu must have seen his call on Friday.
“He, Dele, then called Akilu back that Sunday morning and told him why he called on Friday. Akilu assured him he would look into the matter but that he should regard the matter as closed and advised that it was not a matter for Dele’s lawyer. About ten minutes later, the deadly letter was delivered. And then conspiracy theorists went to town saying that it was Akilu who called on that Sunday morning to know if Dele was at home so they could deliver the bomb.
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