Go, Mugabe, Go By Reuben Abati
S ince August, I have been the anchorperson of a program on television called ThisDay Live where we discuss political matters - local and global. The program is available on Arise News TV at 6pm, 9pm and sometimes at midnight every Sunday. Two days ago, we discussed the situation in Zimbabwe, the elections in Anambra, Nigeria’s decision to hire Malaysian experts at a cost of N485 million to figure out new pathways for Nigeria’s economic growth (with all the experts in Nigeria oh!), the proposed expansion of President Buhari’s cabinet, the burial of 26 teenage Nigerians by the Italian authorities without Nigeria showing up, the sale of Nigerians and other Africans into slavery in Libya… But our top story was Zimbabwe and the travails of a once-upon-a-time Comrade Robert Mugabe. We started the program by joining the Arise News studio in London where our colleague Tham who has been on the Zimbabwean story provided all the updates. He had said that he thought that the Lagos studi...