By Bamidele Johnson
“It was both an honour and a pleasure to host Astronaut Owolabi Salis, Nigeria’s first astronaut. We engaged in fascinating discussions about how to advance Nigeria beyond the skies.” -AA
Just seeing this post by the defunct Waziri, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on X. It was made yesterday. To have called this chap an astronaut suggests that he thinks running for governorship the number of times he himself has run for presidency gives a man the competence to operate a spacecraft or embark on space travel.
I saw photos of Gangarin, Tereshkova and Aldrin. Not one of them is paunch-ridden like the chap Atiku is describing as an astronaut. He may have a tummy the size of a moon buggy, but this chap was no astronaut.
I hope he’s not trying to Matthew Adeyemi Atiku or Atiku is Matthew Adeyemiing himself.
