Entertainer and businesswoman, Wunmi Obe, has recounted a hurtful experience with the media after her brother, Jaiye Aboderin’s, death.
Jaiye Aboderin died on December 3, 2004.
The 49-year-old musician shared the experience in a Facebook post on Monday.
“Almost 15 years ago, I lost my immediate kid brother. He was just 33. As I sat in my house mourning him, i read story after story about how my family and l stormed his home and became the in-laws from hell. I was initially relaxed because I believed that those who knew that this was an obvious lie, could and would rise in our defense and set things straight with the gullible readers. But to my utmost disappointment, I was told that ‘controversy sells’ and so, nothing personal, but they had a job do to. One tabloid even dared to mock our tragedy by putting up a highly insensitive caricature of my brother dropping dead on the basketball court. One particular journalist even went as far as requesting an interview, discussing my music and career, only to write about what he’d seen in my home that day, how things were fine for me but had left my late brother’s family to suffer. He also stole the ONLY obituary poster I’d been able to lay my hands on during the burial, which had been pasted on our front door, when no one was looking, so he could use it for his ‘blockbuster story’. Olodo. The pain of that one still lingers. I wasnt even left in peace to mourn my loss. I could’ve used my own means to hit back and debunk everything, but the stories were so baseless, we concluded that they were beneath acknowledgement. Today, these ‘newshounds’ have all moved on, from the media houses for which they wrote and reported – some to grace, others to grass. Then you have the audacity to come on my fb page with a friend request?? *inbobriskysvoice* Who is your friend??? Ta l’òré e?? Abeg, your friend is in Yaba, taking treatment, hian. Yes, some of those tabloids no longer even exist. But I do. And so do the insults that still trail me over something I knew nothing about. And now that I’ve been stung a second time, you want to console me and ask for another interview cos ‘that one was in the past and you’ve left that paper..’?? Ogbeni, how is it doing you?? See, in case you didn’t get the memo … “Premier gau n’est pas gau..” but the 2nd time..? Just dey your dey make I dey my dey, mbok. Anybody wey dey on top this table, biko don’t let the wooden splinters ‘chook’ u on your way down!” she wrote.
Jaiye was married to Nollywood actress, Stella Damasus.
The couple had two children.
An entertainer and lover of the arts, Wunmi Obe is a co-founder of the music group, T.W.O (Tunde and Wunmi Obe), with her husband, Tunde. She is married with children.
She attended Grange School and Queen’s College, Yaba, Lagos, and holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of Lagos.
