Simplest answer (other than obviously Ep 4 was written decades before Eps 1-3):
He lied.
He doesn't know the circumstances of Luke's appearance at his doorstep (as it were), and his job - his ONLY job - is to keep Luke safe. Until he sees the message, he doesn't know WTF is going on. Why would he admit owning a droid? He's supposed to be just some old geezer in the desert.
Like how many droids just, don’t have names? Or only have names because the peeps that designed them gave them names but nobody else really knows them?
Like that walking holocom droid used by Nute Gunray on Naboo, or Treadwell.
Personal favorite droid? Chopper. Dude is a freaking menace to society.
This is an excuse to share that my favorites as a kid were pit droids, and vuffy raa (or something like that?) which I found in one of my brother’s Star Wars books. It’s a big metal tentacle star fish guy and he’s real cool.
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