11/10/2025
How Rufai Got It Wrong!
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For three days his interview with Engr. David Umahi the Hon. Minister of Works has been trending. Doing very well on social media platforms, forming raw materials for content creation.
I stand to be corrected that the phrase "Professor in Practice" has been a premium saying, knocking off every other ones and beating them to the first position. The phrase without mincing words is doing very well and not in a hurry to leave the stage as the most used phrase in the next two weeks.
Describe that inteview as the most watched, the most dramatised and mimiced, one wouldn't be wrong.
Though Rufai had previously hosted interviews where the interviewees flew off the handle, felt treated rudely, felt engaged with pugancious ferociousness and held by the jugular with hard and revealing questions, none stired the hornet nest than the one that provoked the Minister to address himself as a Professor in Practice.
Where did Rufai get it wrong? He got it wrong in some many ways. For not being afraid to dive into the heart of any story with passion, he got it wrong. For fashioning questions like arrows, straight and true, piercing through the noise to find the core of the truth, he got it wrong.
For soughting out voices often unheard, the stories untold, and brought them into the light, he got it wrong.
For having a determination very much unmatched, navigating treacherous paths, faced down intimidation, and never backed away from a challenge, he got it wrong.
For believing in the power of information and the importance of speaking truth to power, no matter the cost, he got it wrong.
For being a beacon for those who believed in the importance of a free press, serving as a reminder that speaking the truth is an act of bravery, he got it wrong!
For being business like, not given in to halo effect syndrome, sticking to principles, ethics and integrity of journalism, he got it wrong!
It takes a man that has no skeleton in his cupboard to pass through the crucible of his questions without being burnt and exposed by the fire of truth, accountability, fairness and integrity.
Stay away from the arrows of his questions if you are not a metal. Stay away from the bullets of his questions if around you are inflammable liquid, certainly you flay up in rage and discomfort.
Keep it up Rufai! That is your style. Only those with clay foot would be affected by the rains of your strategic interrogation. The fear of Rufai is the beginning of all rubber and clay footed interviewees
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