ThisDay reporter Azuka Ogujiuba who’s still battling with the negative reviews of the Tiwa Savage tell-all interview has continued to answer her critics.
This time, she attacked the publisher of theNETng Ayeni Adekunle (her former colleague at ThisDay) in an article for ThisDay over the theNETng’s negative scoring of her interview performance.
First it’s absolutely wrong to even compare me with TV presenters who I watched growtheir careers and with the help of social media (Instagram and Twitter) gained public notice. I even expected you to mention yourself because we are both experienced in this field.
But being sexist, ethnocentric, and ‘fantastically slyly’, you wanted to spite me. Where did that take you? How many billions have you made from attempting to use my name to drag traffic to your site?
And Azuka didn’t stop there –
For your dead portal to have published that list of OAPs, comparing them to me is a shade I will not ignore, especially for the fact that you once worked in Thisday, as freelance journalist. I didn’t bother going to your dry website.
The journalist explained that her original frustration with Ayeni was with him ignoring her calls over processing an invite to the Headies awards. She alleges –
Ayo Animashaun had issued extra invitations to me for his annual event. I started calling this lord of the manor, Ayeni, two days before the event, but true to type, he wouldn’t pick my call or return them.
I called him throughout the day of the event, sent him text messages, but he would not respond. Then last minute when I had changed my mind about attending the event, one of his boys called me.
I got to the venue and his boy was not picking his calls anymore, I stood out for almost 30 minutes, my heels were not smiling at my feet anymore…
I saw the lanky thing in his old-fashioned white robe, forming CEO. Can you believe what he asked me? “Are you having fun?” I didn’t need anyone to tell me what stunt he was pulling.
She also alleged that Ayeni snubs former colleagues that haven’t risen to his level of success but questioned his right to do so as he hadn’t reached the heights of veterans such as Dele Momodu, Kunle Bakare and Mayor Akinpelu himself.
Azuka also took a swipe at the internet trolls that have plagued her on social media.
For all those cyber bullies hauling jibes at me, I saw all the messages and, guess what? They made me even stronger because the good criticism, I took to heart, the hate comments and insults out of jealousy, I have packaged and sent back to the senders.
Read the 5,000+ word article here