BY ROTIMI AGBANA

During an interview session  which held on radio 91.3FM on Thursday in Lagos, veteran Afro-beat singer, Dede Mabiaku, angrily walked out in the middle of interview claiming he was insulted and disrespected by Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, who was also a guest on the same radio show with him.

Afro-beat singer, Dede Mabiaku and Presidential Media spokesman, Femi Adesina in face-off

During the discussions, Mabiaku interjected while Adesina was responding to a question asked by the anchor on the forthcoming February 6th nationwide protest led by 2face Idibia, over  the nation’s current economic situation, distracting Adesina who requested that Mabiaku allow him finish with his response then he could air his own opinion. The anchor, Faith, also asked Mabiaku to exercise patience, to which Mabiaku obliged.

Displeased with the manner in which Adesina and the anchor had shut him up earlier, Mabiaku angrily refused to go on with the interview. He demanded an apology from Femi Adesina who bluntly refused, stressing that he had politely requested Mabiaku to be patient since the question was directed at him and not Mabiaku.

This got Mabiaku angrier; threatening to walk out of the show if Adesina refused to apologize to him. “Why do you want to hear me? When he had the audacity to tell me to shut up and you told me to stop! I will not use the word ‘Shut up’ that is what he said, play your tape back and I’ll walk out now on this.”

Adesina tried to set the records straight with Mabiaku but he was too angry to listen, “No, that’s the end of it, you don’t have the right to tell me to shut up because you work with the government, hell no, I’m here to tell you things about truth not to be insulted by somebody who works in government, who wants to defend the government, no, I’m out of here,” he thundered and walked out.