By John Ogunsemore
Paul Ibe, Media Adviser to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has slammed a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Chief Bode George for calling him a “boy”.
George and Ibe had a disagreement following the former’s assertion on an Arise Television programme that Atiku would have failed as president if he had won at the polls.
George noted that Atiku’s emergence as president in 2023 would have created many problems for the country, including unstable polity, to which Ibe responded that the former vice president’s administration would rather have ushered in prosperity.
In another appearance on TVC News on Sunday, George said he did not know Ibe after the anchor told him to react to a comment by the Atiku aide.
“I don’t know who Paul Ibe is,” he said.
George also asked Ibe to go before God and ask for forgiveness for suggesting that he did not back Atiku in the 2023 election because of regional considerations.
“I have no iota of tribalism in my blood,” George insisted.
“I don’t know who the Ibe boy is that he is talking trash, rubbish.”
In a reaction on Facebook on Monday evening, Ibe slammed George for calling him a boy.
He said, “My dear son has recently conveyed to me that he overheard Chief Bode George declaring that he is unfamiliar with Paul Ibe.
“Furthermore, he relayed that the pardoned ex-convict referred to me as a ‘boy’. I explained to my son that it is plausible that Chief Bode George – by the way I declined a chieftaincy title due to its phonetic resemblance to ‘thief’ – might have been alluding to him, my son, who also bears the name Paul Ibe.
“I assured him that I pardon the Chief’s remarks; nevertheless, addressing a mature man as a ‘boy’, regardless of age, constitutes a grievous affront.”