About three months ago, this lady was going about her business in Computer Village, Ikeja, Lagos, when she became the subject of interest of several people who even stopped what they were doing to follow her about.
The lady who became the toast of the internet for a while, has come out to clear the air on what happened on that eventful day.
She also insists she doesn’t want the exposure the ‘story’ brought her, as she is in no way seeking any celebrity status of some sort.
Here’s what she shared on social media below:
“Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason – Albert Schweizer.
Hmmmn little did I realized that the surest way to know whether you are a modern being is to forget your mobile phone at home. If you are unable to go back home to fetch it immediately, your outing on that day is incomplete. When I decided to completely
do away with my smartphone because I wanted to live a natural life in the city and to do away with the deceit of the modern life, then I realized what a psychologist once told me concerning habit. She said ‘before character becomes a habit, one must have constantly been practicing such for more than eleven times after which it is difficult to do away with’.
In my own case, I have been using cell phones for more than fourteen years now. I guess this is part of the reasons I was unable to complete my task. I lived without a smartphone for close to five months and I really enjoyed a secluded life which afforded me the opportunity to use my pen and my God gifted intuition to solve problems rather than asking Google. When I went through a copy of the letter I sent to my intimate friend in UK, I was impressed. How I wish those days without smartphone could come into existence again.
A very big sorry to my friends who swiftly tried to reach me when a blogger created news out of no news. I believe we really don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. It’s on this that I want to narrate what really happened on Wednesday, 6th of April. I was on my way from DHL office in Victoria Island to get my Rolex wrist watch which I ordered for.
While I was coming back from VI, an agent whom I’ve directed to get me a shop where I can display my artistic talent, since i’m unable to secure any office employment since I left university five years ago, called to inform me there was a vacancy at computer village. Could it have been my wish that after my university education, the only available job for me is to source to rent a shop?
I settled for this because I realized that after climbing a great hill, one only finds out that there are many more hills to climb. I was at Computer Village solely for this reason.
It’s almost becoming a natural occurrence that wherever there are assemblies of guys and I happen to be sighted, I must seize the show.
I guess these habits displayed by most guys towards beautiful ladies especially those that are highly endowed are not alien to us, as most of us must have had similar experience.
This is what happened when one quack online photo reporter who couldn’t have the required skills to nose for news purportedly created news out of no news.
My layman understanding of journalism is ‘When dog bites man is not a news but it’s a news when man bites a dog. News is simply reporting the unusual. Please what is unusual in what happened at Computer Village that day?
I challenge the superior of that quack journalist to always dot the i and cross the t because her reputation might be tested and when that’s done….
A closer study at the background of the posted picture would reveal that such scenario always happens to ladies and would continue as long as men and women are created to complement one another.
I want to sound a note of warning here that I don’t want anyone to drive my popularity since i’m neither an actress nor musician. Why on earth do I need such popularity? Enough of this!
I tender my unreserved apology to friends and family who felt uncomfortable seeing such pictures going viral.
You all know me for my modest life, believe me it hasn’t changed. Olorun yio ma sho wa ni owo eni ti ako sho.
I wrote this piece for those who thought I masterminded it and to appeal to my immediate family that I know nothing about the ugly situation.
All of us are products of the same childhood experience. And the same blood flows in my vein. Therefore, there’s no how I could mastermind such.
If not for an in-law journalist who advised that I should let the sleeping dog lies, Linda Ikeji would have by now been sued. I’m afraid, shouldn’t we all support the social media bill. I vote in support of the bill.
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