By YeyeNews.com with notes from our Abuja reporter, Ada Obeleagu, August 31, 2021
Obi Cubana made a ripple. He buried his mother, Nigerians talked about it for weeks. Rarely does anyone remember that a woman was lowered six feet under. We remember the decadence and the debauchery that passed as a funeral and burial ceremony. We know because YeyeNews.com was there.
Yusuf Buhari caused a tidal wave. YeyeNews.com was there, too. He got married to Ms. … we do not even know her name. But what we know, what has consumed us and many other Nigerians, and the Internet is the effrontery of the son of the self-acclaimed humble man and No.1 public servant to challenge and top what happened in Oba, Anambra State; the audacity to rub it in our face especially this month of August that killings and acute economic hardship have combined to bend Nigeria at an angle steeper than that of crayfish.
Like almost every Nigerian, we were incensed that Yusuf Buhari gave wedding souvenirs to over 700 guests. But our YeyeNews.com reporter was the first Nigerian to be incensed as she was at the wedding. Due to security and other protocols, she was not allowed into the reception which was held in a house her father’s tax money as a civil servant helped to build. So, she waited outside by the flower beds and imagined her upcoming wedding slated for October 30, 2021 with reception to be held in an uncompleted Town Hall of her village people in Abuja. And when Buhari guests started trooping out, she became unofficially the first incensed Nigerian: guests had bags that contained customized iPhone 12 Pro Max, the latest brand of iPhone: market value is about N589,000; Apple iPad 8th. Generation: market value is about N645,000; Apple Watch; and other things including a bottle of champagne, perfume, a pack of kayanmata, and others.
Later, reports had it that each pack of the souvenir with its contents exceeded N1.7million and that the monetary insult to the nation was over N1billion.
But before the guests could walk to their exotic chauffeured vehicles, YeyeNews.com reporter, the first pissed off Nigerian considered her salary (she notified YeyeNews.com management the previous day that she should be paid 150,000 as salary starting November 1 while management was willing to add 20,000 naira to her current 50,000 naira pay) as a hardworking Nigerian youth and calculated how long it would take her to save to buy a used iPhone and decided to ask Yusuf’s guests important questions she knew Nigerians would ask whenever the souvenirs details emerged.
What does Yusuf do as work? She was tempted to add “apart from driving and crashing power bikes all over Abuja and traveling whenever to Dubai, London and other wherevers?”
“Yusuf doesn’t go to work for security reasons”, one guest said.
“He is educated – a graduate – and can find work and Nigerians know it. He is not one of those lazy youths his father, His Excellency, complains about”, another added
How did Yusuf pay for the gifts and souvenirs?
“Yusuf is a very smart Nigerian. He has many investments. He has Facebook stock worth over $50 million. He sold a few”, one guest who claimed to be “a very close friend of Yusuf” told YeyeNews.com.
When the reporter asked the guest the current market price of Facebook stock and how many units Yusuf had, the guest who volunteered that he had some Facebook stock as well said he did not know, that “Our broker handles things like that.” The reporter wanted to ask for the name of the broker but was smart enough not to do that.
Another guest stated that Yusuf invested in NNPC, that he bought some shares in May 2015 after his father became president. However, YeyeNews.com reporter told him that NNPC is not a public traded company.
“Are you calling me a liar?”, the visibly angry guest charged while throwing a glance towards a bunch of security detail protecting the reception of the rich.
YeyeNews.com reporter got the gist. She knew it was time to take a hike else her fiancé would be beyond angry on October 30 as she languished at one of the detention centers of the Nigerian secret police. Or maybe he would find a replacement bride. Come to think of it, maybe she should start a business for replacement bride or groom and make more than N150,000.
Edited by Ada Obeleagu and Okereke Udoakpuenyi
