THE RANTING OF PSEUDO ACTIVIST ,MIKE OZEKHOME ON CHANNELS TV HARD COPY



I woke up this morning after a serious and terrible hang over of yesternight to watch the Hard Copy repeat edition on Channels Tv. My bedroom television is always and permanently on Channels TV which undoubtedly is the Nigeria’s best television station that is reputable for professionalism unlike that other television channel that parades untrained On Ait Personalities as “ Broadcasters” but with the exclusion of my very revered Egbon, Bros Reuben Abati and the amazion of the tube, the delectable Ayo Mairo-Ese, but without ignoring some other few professionals like Steve Ayorinde, Atingalli, our own  YomiLekan Salami daughter, also Adefemi, Ebi , the pretty Ngozi Eleagwu??, Charles , but certainly not that uncouth , uncultured , untrained and extremely rude toddler called Rufai Oseni .


Maupe Ogun is the main anchor of Hard Copy. Maupe is by any standard a world class broadcaster that can match the best of CNN Broadcaster or any other anywhere in the world. 


The Mike Ozekhome, SAN was however, unfortunately ,anchored by Keila who is also not doing badly on Channels TV. 


My grouse with most of the Nigerian media personalities is that about 95% of them , besides being untrained and raw are very lazy , indolent and have morbid lust for undeserved percuniary  gain and are extremely corrupt , yet they are the very best who will always mouth themselves as anti-corruption crusader.


I don’t belong to that school of thought where the anthem is - “ Let us take the message and ignore the messanger” because that would have excused that Mr.( not a Prof) Mike Ozekhome’s vituperation on Channels Tv. 


Let me digress to give a brief background. I got to know the learned Silk, Mike Ozekhome for the first time through my very reverred Principal and Mentor, the Great Aketi when Emperor of blessed memory was setting ground for his NBA Presidency contest and I followed him to deliver his letter of intent to several notable law firms all over the country and Mr. Ozekhome’s office happened to be one one of them. His law firm was situated in Lagos then in area which I can no longer remember, but it must be somewhere around Surulere if my memory serves me right because we went there after we left the office of that brilliant, incorruptible and fortnight seasoned  Advocate, Kola Awidehin, SAN whom Aketi always called and addressed as “ Awo- K” because Aketi also has “ Awa K” which is well deserved Professor Awa Kalu,SAN.


On getting to Mr. Ozekhome, SAN office that year , what first came to my mind was that why will the legendary Aketi bring me the office of a vain personality like this. The law firm looked like the office of someone who is in Nollywood or Entertainment business and never a serious law firm. The office was seriously adorned and embellished with various photographs of personalities that have nothing to do with the legal profession. The man was merely advertising himself to the unsuspecting members of the public who are very gullible. Fortunately for me me, we didn’t meet him and Aketi dropped the letter of intent for him. As we were leaving in Aketi’s Sagari Benz which WWW plate number, I told Aketi never to bring me to such office again or at worst to let me be in the car. The Great Aketi just smiled and said ,” OJ Irunmole, we just have to distribute my letter of intent to all stakeholders in the profession. OJ , ma binu”. I took the apology in good faith but not without joking that “ Emperor, this your stakeholder is something else o”


Back to the balderdash interview of Oga Mike on Hard Copy, he exhibited crass ignorance of the topic he professed on. Without being immodest, I am a very great student of Economics as I was taught Economics by the best of Teachers in my Higher School Certificate class at the Oyo State College of Arts and Science, Ile-Ife by Mrs. Ogunba, Baba Orosakin and Uncle Adeniyi and I emerged as one of the very best in 1988 HSC result. I know Lipsey and also Hanson Economic textbooks off-hand till date and that accounted for my A grade score when I took a simpler Economics in my first year at the Mass Communication class at the University of Lagos in 1988/1989. Unknown to the vainglorious personalities like Oga Mike, some of us were best trained even in Government as a subject at HSC by the very best of teachers  which included the Orangun of Oke-Ila, HRM Oba Adedokun Abolarin, Aroyinkeye 1, Messrs Ajala and Ojelabi of blessed memory and also Messres Fakunle and Irelewuyi. It always amused me when Oga Mike’s ilk parrot trash in national tv .


How will any sane and reasonable person know that it is easier for any government to do by fiat and make the exchange rate of Naira to Dollar to be N1 to $1 which all failed leaderships in Nigeria have been doing before the divine emergence of Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu who has halted that that fake and false approach to our nation’s economy. Ditto for the subsidy which has left Nigeria castrated and almost bleeding to death. Only those who have their thinking apparatus at the sole of their foot will condemn those two great policies by PBAT - subsidy removal and floatation of Naira. 


My one and only wife , Bamidele Adebayo sells rice at Bodija market , Ibadan and I watch her daily as she groans and gnashing her teeth about the crash in the price of rice. Yet, some fake Economists like Oga Mike and that media  hype created  monster , Mr. Peter Obi who was a colossal failure as the Governor of Anambra State would be churning out untruths and falsehoods to deceive and mislead the masses of this country. Our lazy media also would shirk in their responsibility to ask Mr. Obi to point to any project that he successfully executed as the Governor of Anambra State in his 7 year stint in that State. Was he not the same Peter Obi who was too clannish to sack indigenes of Abia, Imo,Enugu, Ebonyi and other neighboring states from the civil service of Anambra State when he was Governor? Was it not the same PO who invested the funds of Anambra State in his family Brewry Business? Was it not the same PO who cross-carpeted from APGA to PDP and now to the Labour Party? Have we all lost our memory or was it due to some amnesia? Haba!!!


And if we are talking of great and seasoned legal practitioners in Nigeria that are thoroughbred , we can reference the numero uno, Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, the very brilliant and pace-setter Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN whose record setting to clinch SAN on the dot of 10 post call remains unmatched till today, the versatile and well deserved 1st  Kulinya Ngeri  of Ilorin Emirate, Mallam Yusuf Olaolu Ali, SAN, Chief Akin Olujinmi, SAN, Ebun Sofunde, SAN , Jide Ogundipe, Lasun Sanusi SAN, fine Boy Charles Edosowan, SAN, Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu, SAN, Prof. Awa Kalu, SAN, Mrs. Funke Adekoya SAN, Mrs. Mianaya SAN, Prof. Konyisola Ajayi SAN, Ahmed Raji , SAN, Femi Falana , SAN, Biodun Owonikoko,SAN, Tunde Ajibade , SAN, Tunde Aiku, SAN, Alhaji Adelodun, SAN, A.B, Mahmoud , SAN, Adegboyega Awomolo, SAN, Prof Olatoke SAN,  Chief Akeem Afolabi, SAN, Suraj Sae’da , SAN, Musibau Adetunbi, SAN, Afolabi Fashanu , SAN, Paul Usoro, SAN, Mutiu Ganiyu, Anthony Malik, SAN, Bode Olanipekun, SAN and others too numerosus to mention , but which I can assert without missing a beat that Mr. Mike Ozekhome, SAN is not in their class or world .


Was it not Oga Mike that once filed an ill-fated champerty case for Mr. Godwin Emefiele when the latter sought to contest for the Presidency of this country as a sitting Governor of CBN which has remained Godwin’s albatross till today. I will like to use this medium to beg and appeal to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to forgive Mr. Emefiele and drop all the charges against him him in view of mass recoveries that the the EFCC has made from him. Enough is Enough, the man should be allowed to go and have full medical treatment abroad. Nigeria will gain nothing if we should lose Godwin to death in view of his very deteriorating health.


Where is Oga Mike today  in all of the Godwin’s travails despite tons of millions that Oga Mike and others have made and extorted from him as professional fees when he was the Governor of CBN. Use and dump people have abandoned Godwin and perch elsewhere.


Our press and media men should wake up from their slumber and should do a thorough research on their guests before bringing them on board to avoid allowing them from throwing verbiage and thrash on national and international tv. That Mike Ozekhome, SAN interview on Channels’s Hard Copy was a great let down and balderdash.


CORRIGENDA


How can I forget the Indomitable, Cerebral, Witty , versatile and the Distinguished J. B. Daudu, SAN who is the real uncrowned Professor of the Nigerian Legal Profession.


Also, the ebullient Folabi Kuti , SAN and the extremely brilliant Oluseun Adeola Adedipe , SAN.


My profuse apologies


DATED this  10th day of June, 2025


JCI Senator Mutalubi Ojo Adebayo,SAN

Asiwaju of Ita-Ege & Idi-Aro,

Ibadan South-East Local Government 

AND

Agba-Ofin of Orile-Igbon.

Surulere Local Government Area,

Oyo State of Nigeria

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