There’s a brand new shortcut to instantaneous reputation in naija: add Seyi Tinubu’s identify onto any wild declare and growth, you’re headline gold – no want for details, proof, or perhaps a little trace of proof.
And the most important cheerleader of this extremely banal fancy is none aside from former Vice President and serial presidential bridesmaid, His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar!
This elder statesman, whom you’d assume should have mastered discretion, both on account of the excessive workplace he as soon as occupied or his travails from the William Jefferson scandal to the Intels affair and the detention and corruption trial of a few of his allies and youngsters, clearly has no chill, no filter.
Take the so-called “navy parade,” for instance, throughout which Seyi inspected a bunch of youths in Boy Scouts-like uniforms in Abeokuta. Earlier than you could possibly say, Boy Scout, Atiku, screamed to the world that they have been troopers on a parade, for Seyi. He thought and believed the worst, even at face worth, when he simply wanted to look and he’d see these have been solely youth volunteers!
Then there was the humorous, if not ridiculous, Elizabeth Jack-Wealthy drama by which scandal-monger Jackson Ude, imitating the previous vice chairman, alleged that Seyi was having an affair with the spouse of former presidential aspirant, Tein, just for the household to dismiss it as garbage. However Jackson and others who aimed to development on Seyi’s identify had cashed out and gotten their development.
And now, there’s the pièce de résistance: Seyi allegedly masterminding the kidnapping of a scholar chief after a ₦100
million bribe was rejected. Once more, His Excellency, the previous vice chairman, is main the Twitterverse battalion to amplify what even the usually vital socio-cultural group, Afenifere, has dismissed as “salacious, fallacious, and completely fabricated.”
At this price, Seyi Tinubu’s identify would possibly as nicely include a “trending is assured” stamp.
Neglect reality or proof. Even overlook investigating.
Simply put Seyi’s identify into your story and also you get pleasure from 24 hours of viral fame! Assured.
Mike Ochuko, a social commentator writes from Asaba through [email protected]