| I don’t buy
recharge cards for girls; all girls know that – Eddy
Remedy
By AZUH AMATUS
Saturday, May 7,
2005
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Eddy Remedy
Photos: Sun News Publishing
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Being a musician, it is expected that Eddy Remedy would have
no problems buying recharge cards for admiring females. But
that is not the case. In these days where most, if not all,
girls won’t end a simple just-to-say hi calls, without
asking for a recharge card, Eddy says, “ I don’t
buy recharge cards for girls.” His reason being, “
you must have done something for me to get something from
me”
However, Eddy is not all mean and tight-fisted. “ I
don’t buy credits for people,” said he, “
but I can give my handset.” If over twenty handsets
he has so far, freely given out between 2002 and now, is foretelling,
the logical thing is for girls to ask Eddy, not for recharge
cards but for his handset- you don’t have to do “
something” for him to get that from him.
How the GSM has helped me
“ Except it was done mistakenly,” said Afro hip-hop
musician, “I can’t live a day without my mobile
phone it is either, I forget it at home or in the car,”
but to consciously do away with it, “ I don’t
think I can. It is my mobile office.”
“ one day,” two months after this father of two
bought his GSM, “ the phone rang. I thought it was someone
familiar.” He was wrong. “the call came from somewhere
in the North. They wanted Edris Abdulkareem and I for a show
after we had split. They said they wanted to talk to Edris
to be sure we were in consent and we were going to come.”
Since “ we haven’t seen for some time.”
Eddy started to look for Edris’ number. “ I called
so many people and “ it was the man whose Hummer Jeep
was parked in the premises of the hall we had this interview,
Kenny Ogungb, that “ at last that gave me his number.
That was the first most memorable help the GSM has done for
me. “ if you ask him, “ I think that was the greatest
help.”
“ The other help most memorable was when my wife was
going to drop our first born,” Edwina, whose picture
proudly hangs on the wall adjacent the first door as you enter
Eddy’s apartment. “ I travelled a day before the
delivery date,” narrated Eddy, “ I didn’t
know the delivery date has changed. I thought I could just
go to the show and make it before her delivery week.”
While at the venue to the show somewhere in Ibadan, “it
has happened O,” was how the voice through his GSM ‘s
ear pieced conveyed the news of Edwina ‘s birth. “
if you want to come no problem; if you don’t want to
come no problem O! we just said we should let you know.”
Did he leave the show? “it was my first born for Christ’s
sake! I had to leave the show; I came to support my wife.”
Lying on phone
“ Everybody who owns a GSM is a liar,” declared
the footballer cum musician, in fact I am the preacher of
that.” Supporting this claim Eddy said, “ even
my wife will not tell a lie. I know her much that she would
not lie; she hates to lie. In fact I have been there when
she cried after she lied to somebody- but on phone, she will
lie. In my wife’s case it could be a very small lie
that will not hurt anybody, but a lie is a lie” he maintained.
“ I am the best liar on phone. I can postpone dates;
I can just rearrange things on phone.” (And that’s
just the truth; he postponed this interview thrice on phone.)
“ sometimes it is difficult for you to look at someone
‘s eyes and tell the person a lie but the phone make
you lie. It has turned us more into liars. You must be a liar
to use the phone! He inferred.
Most memorable lie on phone
“I remember one very ‘bad’ one … it
was a democracy day celebration. I was in Delta State with
a couple of other artists- Sammy Okposo, Daddy Showkey, Rasky
Mono… we were to perform the peace song we wrote for
the state.” Every other person was in the stadium while
“ I was in the hotel.” Sammy Okposo called : “
‘ where you dey?. I said, ‘ ten minutes I don
dey with you.’ I kept going on, and on like that for
three four times and as a matter of fact, everybody was waiting
for me. I found out that I was the one stopping the occasion
from moving ahead because I was lying on phone. It took another
35minutes to get there.
No recharge cards for girls
“There was a day I told one, ‘ go and work for
it. Can’t you see I am working for it? She felt insulted
but that was the best answer I could give. I don’t feel
like buying and I felt teaching her something that she should
know. Instead of begging I think it is better for you to look
for a way to work for it. I would prefer somebody to work
for me and then I pay for what you have done for me and give
you an extra than to give freely to somebody that has not
done anything for me. These days nothing goes for nothing;
you must have done something for me to get something from
me. I don’t buy recharge cards for girls; all girls
know that.”
Flashers are irritants
“ I don’t like flashing people. I have never flashed,
I know what it does to me; it disturbs me. I could be discussing
something very, very important with you and somebody flashes.
It makes me switch off my phone sometimes. Sometimes if I
have the opportunity, I call a flasher and tell them to stop
flashing me. Most of the time I’ll find out that the
people that are flashing me don’t know me. Maybe they
got my number from somebody.”
His problem with flashers is that they “refuse to understand
that they are irritants. They are very stubborn too. Sometimes
they flash under the pretence that thy don’t have credit
and you have to call them back. If it is that important you
should go out there, get some credit and call. You could go
to a business centre and call- it is just N30. Some people
even make it N20 these days, so it is coming down and it is
making it easy for flashers.”
My text messages
Long before the arrival of Kennedy, his second child, “
I was away from home for five days,” and his wife sent
a text message that is today “The most emotional”
in Eddy’s Guinness books of record-she said if I looked
at the four walls my hotel, I would find her face and my baby’s
face in those walls and that I should remember that they are
waiting for me back at home. That is cool. Because of that,
every show I went I took her photographs with me. Immediately
I get to the hotel, I hang them on he four corners of the
walls so if she calls, I’ll tell her: “you don’t
need to call, I am seeing you here already. “Hi most
annoying text message is from a fan: “who do you think
you are, I’m flashing you and you can’t call me”
while this “from two sister” was adjudged the
most unbelievable and in Eddy’s estimation, “the
funniest too:” they said if I were not married they
would have gotten married to me”.
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