(Reuben) Abati versus TOS Benson, by Emeka Obasi
Wounded politicians are highly inflammable, little wonder many turn to communicable disease when power eludes them. In 1959, Chief Theophilus Owolabi Shobowale (TOS) Benson, became Nigeria’s first Minister of Information. A year before Reuben Abati was born, Benson lost his ministerial position