BABA LONDONER in particular always set me on fire of uncontrolled laughter.- Tunde Busari
The duo of Seyi Sokoya and Segun Adebayo are two reporters whose stories sing and dance on the pages of Saturday and Sunday Tribune week in, week out.
SS and SA are the emerging irunmoles in entertainment beat to my admiration. Thus, I read both writers religiously to enjoy latest happenings in the subsector. Again, last Sunday, I read Adebayo’s extensive interview with Babatunde Omidina famously and easily called Baba Suwe. The publication was a star story in that edition reading Baba Suwe for the first time in recent past having seemingly withdrawn to himself as if he wasn’t the same darkened face on the movie jackets of seven out of 10 releases at Idumota. Adebayo asked Baba Suwe probing, if you like, provoking questions on his Post-NDLEA ordeal and his rumoured sickness. Shockingly, Baba Suwe provided what looks like honest answers and even expressed gratitude that Adebayo took the pains to search for him for clarification instead of rushing to press to make up some half-truth or outright falsehood to decieve the public. Although he cleverly ran away from a few personal questions and promised to vomit at the right time, Baba Suwe may have lost his goodwill among his colleagues and patrons. He sounds like a wounded lion who is helpless to initiate a reprisal offensive. He also sounds as an abandoned baby on the streets birthed by a callous mother, first daughter of Lucifer. However, he promised Adebayo that he would return with a movie to detail his experience during his trying moments. Because Baba Suwe was my friend between 2006 and 2007 when I was regular in his Ikorodu residence and always in his jeep with which he dropped me at the State CID, Panti, Yaba, Lagos, I want to sincerely wish him quick retrieval of his slowly dimming fame. It is not good for a star to experience what Baba Suwe has passed through from the sudden, controversial death of his wife Moladun to the matter with drugs law enforcement operatives at Ikoyi and finally to alleged low patronage by movie directors and producers. I wish him all the best he wishes for himself. That he is not your preferred comedian, based on his sometimes artificial delivery, is not really important to me here. It can’t, however, be taken away from him that he is a popular or once popular entertainment personality in Nigeria. His film, BABA LONDONER in particular always set me on fire of uncontrolled laughter. Stay well, BabSuweee.
