Ex-host of TVC’s morning show “Your View,”, Morayo Afolabi-Brown, has admitted that her past criticism of 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, was based on ignorance and a lack of proper understanding of his record in office.
By Emma Ogbuehi
Ex-host of TVC’s morning show “Your View,”, Morayo Afolabi-Brown, has admitted that her past criticism of 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, was based on ignorance and a lack of proper understanding of his record in office.
According to Punch, Afolabi-Brown who made the disclosure during an interview with TV personality, Chude Jideonwo, confessed that her comments against the former Anambra state governor were not well-informed.
“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?’
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The broadcaster also opened up about her battle with depression, recalling how she once considered taking her own life.
“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.
Afolabi-Brown explained that she decided to step away from her programme, “Your View” after the show’s tenth anniversary, saying she had long harboured the thought 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 further narrated how she was sacked from TVC until her identity became known to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“People now called 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.
On controversies during her career, Afolabi-Brown revisited the uproar that trailed an on-air interview in which she was accused of calling her husband a pedophile.
According to her, the First Lady’s intervention helped her make peace and publicly apologise.
Her exit from “Your View”, she noted, marked the end of her 12-year journey on the breakfast show.
