* Kalu                                             * Tinubu 

One of the aides of the former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, Mr. Kunle Oyewunmi, has advised former Governor Bola Tinubu to call to order, the Chairman of The Nation Newspaper’s Editorial Board, Mr. Sam Omatseye, over his outbursts against the personality of Kalu yesterday.
Oyewunmi, was reacting to Omatseye’s yesterday’s piece in his column at the back page of The Nation newspaper, where Omatseye directly insulted and accused Kalu of masterminding a story in the Sun newspaper on its recent publication suggesting surveillance on Tinubu.

 Oyewunmi, who described Omatseye’s piece as a display of unprofessionalism and rascality, said both Kalu and Tinubu enjoy cordial relationship spanning over three decades and that they would not allow any unprofessional write-up to destroy the relationship. He said; “It is utterly embarrassing and provocative that Omatseye could allow himself to be led by the nose of the government specious rebuttal of The Sun story.

 The fact that the government debunked the story does not make it fictitious. Is vicious Omatseye saying that no government has denied stories published by his medium? Do such predictable face-saving gobbledygooks affect the authenticity of such stories?

 “In any case, is Omatseye saying that Tinubu, as the publisher of THE NATION, determines what the newspaper publishes?

 If that is the convention in his organisation, it is an entirely different case in The Sun and New Telegraph titles, as Kalu had never interfered in the editorial policy and content of the titles in his newspaper establishments.

 In addition, for purposes of argument, even if that was the routine, is it not against the ethics of journalism for publishers to kill stories as expected by Omatseye, who knows full well that Kalu does not meddle in his publications?”

 He said that he would limit his comments on Omatseye because of the need to protect the relationship between Kalu and Tinubu.

 credit: IgbereTV