I Criticised Peter Obi Out of Ignorance – Morayo Afolabi-Brown
A former Managing Director of TVC Entertainment, Morayo Afolabi-Brown has admitted that her past criticism of former Anambra State governor and Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, was made out of ignorance.
The broadcaster, who spoke in an interview with Chude Jideonwo, confessed that her earlier comments about Obi’s leadership were not based on facts.
“It was because I did not know him. After I made that comment, people called me and said, ‘Morayo, do you realise that when he was governor, he actually served us?’ So that was him. I said, ‘Oh, I did not know,’” she explained.
Afolabi-Brown also opened up about her struggle with depression, disclosing that she once considered suicide.
“I was depressed. It got so bad that I thought I was suicidal. I just left everything behind. I remember just walking on the express, hoping a car would hit me. It was that bad,” she revealed.
She noted that she chose to step away from Your View after its tenth anniversary, having long nurtured the idea of moving on.
“It was when we were 10 years old that I knew it was time to move on to the next thing. I’ve been harbouring that thought for a while, but I just didn’t know to what or where, you know. But I think last year, I got that light bulb moment,” she said.
Brown also recalled how she was sacked from TVC before her identity was revealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“People now call Asiwaju, ‘Do you know whose child was sacked?’ He said, ‘I’m not aware.’ He said, ‘This is the Alao Aka-Bashorun’s daughter.’ That’s when he knew it was me,” she recounted.
Addressing controversies in her career, she revisited the uproar that followed an on-air interview in which she was accused of describing her husband as a paedophile.
According to her, the First Lady’s intervention helped her make peace and issue a public apology.
Her departure from Your View, she added, marked the conclusion of her 12-year journey on the breakfast show.
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