[News] “I was totally disgusted” – Married Twitter user narrates his encounter with an ‘Abuja Big Man’ who propositioned him at a lounge

A married man, Iruefi, has narrated his encounter with an ‘Abuja Big Man’ who propositioned him at a lounge where he had gone to chill.

 

Iruefi, who shared his experience via Twitter on Thursday, said he had heard about ‘Abuja big men’ and politicians propositioning young men.

“Chilling in one ‘big man’ lounge, the bartender comes, “boss, that chairman sent me to call you”, I turned to see who it was and a man, in his late 40’s or so waved at me. I didn’t recognize him and surely if it was someone that knew me he’d have come to holla and not summon me,” he tweeted.

 

“I signaled with my hands and mouthed “you mean I should come meet you there”, he nodded in affirmation. I said okay, turned back to my drink and continued sipping like nothing happened. After about 5 minutes later, the waiter came back to repeat his earlier message.

“I told him, “go and tell the man that if he wants to talk to me he should come here, that’s what responsible people do, and if you come back here again to deliver this message I will elbow you”. After about 2 minutes, the man came to my table and asked why I didn’t come.

 

“I was about speaking when a loud belch roared from his mouth and a deep stench of alcohol saturated the atmosphere, apparently man was drunk af. He said “do you know what I can do for you young man? Do you know who owns this place?”

“I told him “yes I do, I don’t know him personally though”. The man looked at me from hair to toe, at this point I was standing ‘cos I’d stood up to shake hands when he came to my table. I asked him if there was any problem, I didn’t just understand his game.

 

“He said “I like you, you’re a handsome young man, and you look like a really cool guy” while rocking back and forth obviously due to his drunken state. I said “thank you sir, I appreciate your remarks”. He asked that I should come join his table, he was with a few people.

“I told him I was okay where I was and that I actually came here to clear my head. He said he understands and that it happens, he asked for my number to which I quickly obliged, innocently. He went back to his table. Few minutes later, the waiter comes with a piece of paper & pen.

 

“Boss he said you should write your number here”, I was in the middle of writing my number when I had a second thought; this is unusual, actually this is very unusual. I turned to look at his table again and something just clicked, bruh I just burst out laughing.

“I squeezed the paper and told the waiter not to come again with any requests from the man. I also asked him to get my bill to which he said “chairman has already covered it”. I shook my head and started laughing again, the waiter joined me, we both knew why I was laughing.

 

“I walked up to his table and thanked him, I greeted the other men there with him, 3 of them or so. He stood up to shake me and was expecting me to squeeze in something into his palms; the paper with my number, so I thought. He asked if I was leaving to which I told him no.