The president’s Silk cigarettes and all that, By Festus Adedayo
When he sat for that interview alleging that Tinubu was hopelessly addicted to Silk cigarettes — and that the President “can’t do without them” — linking it to questions surrounding his health, what I think the man infamous for the grass-cutting scandal did was to serve the Nigerian public a classic dish of Tábà.
Take these: two-time Ugandan President Apollo Milton Obote was addicted to his pipe; Barack Obama confessed to grappling with smoking; Nelson Mandela, when confronted with a 1950s photo of himself holding a cigarette, claimed he was “just showing off”; Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were a chain-smoking couple in the White House; John F Kennedy loved his cigars.
In a sensational repertoire, he alleged that Nigerian President Bola Tinubu is “an unhealthy man” who, at the drop of a hat, junkets to French hospices.
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