REX LAWSON : A VERY GREAT KALABARI & RIVERS STATE SON 2006 AT MY LONDON RESTUARANT (PEPPERLESS) WERE GATHERED THE GREAT & THE CREAM OF THE NIGERIAN SOCIETY. I WAS THE HOST OF THE SPECIAL EVENT NIGHT. THE AUGUST GATHERING INCLUDED ACTORS OLU JACOB, NKEM OWOH, JIM IYKE, RITA DOMINIC, CHIEF ZEBRUDAYA, STEPHANINE OKEREKE, AKI & PAWPAW, ZACK ORJI, AND MANY MANY MORE. POLITICIAL BIGWIGS INCLUDED ABIYE SEKIBO, TONYE HARRY, CRA, TONY ANNENIH, VARIOUS SENATORS, HOUSE OF REPS-MEMBERS, VARIOUS STATE HOUSE ASSEMBLY-MEMBERS, 5 STATE GOVERNORS INCLUDING ORJI KALU, DONALD DUKE, GEJ, AND A LOT OF OTHER VIPs. PRESIDENT OBJ ARRIVED UNANNOUNCED. I THEN ASKED THE LIVE-BAND TO PLAY THE NATIONAL ANTHEM TO ACKNOWLEDGE HIS PRESENCE. THEY DID. UNEXPECTEDLY, MY LIVE-BAND STARTED PLAYING REX LAWSON (SO ALA TEMEN). PRESIDENT OBJ, IN HIS CHARACTISTIC WAY, GRABED THE MICROPHONE AND ANNOUNCED TO THE CROWD THAT REX LAWSON WAS HIS VERY GOOD AND PERSONAL FRIEND. HE WENT ON TO PRAISE REX LAWSON, PAUL WORIKA, ELECHI AMADI, DAPPER BRIEYE, ADAKA BORO, AND MELFORD OKILO AS TRUELY GREAT MEN AND A CREDIT TO THE OLD RIVERS STATE. HE THEN COMMANDED THE LIVE-BAND TO PLAY SO ALA TEMEN FOR HIM TO SING FOR THE CROWD. PRESIDENT OBJ GAVE A CLASSICAL RENDITION OF THIS VERY FAMOUS KALABARI SONG WITH A LOT OF FINESE. EVERYONE CHEERED FOR OBJ. UP TILL THIS DAY, I SOMETIMES WONDER IF ANYONE COULD HAVE HAD THE GUTS TO TELL PRESIDENT OBJ NOT TO BOTHER GOING INTO MUSIC AND STICK TO POLITICS AFTER HIS VERY COLOURFUL VERSION OF THIS GREAT SONG. WHAT A NIGHT IT WAS @ THE PEPPERLESS RESTUARANT LONDON
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 22:11:53 +0000
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