- Safiu Kehinde
Popular Nigerian media personality and former host of TVC’s Your View programme, Morayo Afolabi-Brown, has expressed regret over her past criticism of the 2023 Labour Party’s Presidential candidate, Peter Obi.
Morayo admitted having made the remarks against the former Anambra state governor without knowing much about him or his record in office.
The renown TV disclosed this in an interview with fellow media personality, Chude Jideonwo.
Morayo reportedly maintained that her comments on the Labour Party presidential candidate at the time were not based on personal familiarity with his record.
“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 said.
“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 said.
On reason behind her exit from TVC, Morayo disclosed that she had long been contemplating on leaving after 10 years of hosting Your View.
Meanwhile, she also disclosed how she was once sacked by the station before President Bola Tinubu’s intervention which led to the disclosure of her identity as daughter of late prominent Nigerian lawyer, Alao Aka-Bashorun.
“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 recalled.