Thread by @DavidHundeyin

I know what I went through at KMPG UK and at Channels TV because of office politics. If I'm carrying the matter on my head, e get why.

If you smear me with the "misogynist" label because of that, I am here to tell you that it is 100% your problem. It's your electricity and data.

The difference between Oge and I is that I was raised by the world's biggest bully, so from age 5 or so I have learned to fight for my fucking life.

If not for that reservoir of violence, I could have ended up in a similar situation to her.

This shit is very personal for me.

I HATE people whose main skill in life is knowing how to network, make friends and grift their way through stuff without actually being exceptional at anything.

I hate them because they feed on the output of people like us who prefer to just work and let it speak for us.

I understand EXACTLY how lonely, depressed, hopeless, defeated and hopeless it feels to be the well pumping out ideas and execution while other people are experts at putting their faces in front of the cameras.

I've been there too many times!

Heck I didn't know Oge existed until last week. I "knew" that Kiki Mordi "did the investigation." That's how these people work. The ones who prefer to work pour out the goods, and they get to receive scholarships and awards and grants and Twitter sainthood.

That shit STINGS.

Most of you hadn't even heard of me until February or March last year. Meanwhile I've been in and around the Nigerian media space since 2013!!! I spent 6 years doing all kinds of work for people you know, and nobody knew who TF I was for YEARS.

For the sake of my salary as a content developer some years ago, I watched an "award winning Nigerian author" take my 2,000-word Thisday centrespread which was supposed to properly launch my career, and put his name on it.

I couldn't talk because I was powerless.

There's a current state first lady whom I wrote a couple of speeches for, and she delivered them to rapturous ovation.

Till now as I type this, I have not received one red cent for my services. Nigerians are EXPERTS at using and dumping!

It hurts!

In 2017, @TheOtherNewsCTV got over 6,000 applications when recruiting for writers. I got in as the top-ranked applicant. I did so well that I was part of pre-production brainstorming and I was asked to recruit the rest of the writing team for the show....

One of the writers I brought in later found herself by sheer happenstance in a position where she was more or less my boss, because Channels was unstructured like that.

This babe made it her mission in life to sideline me because she felt threatened by my presence. Man...

I was going to leave the show beaten and shamed, after collecting N400k/month to sit idle and watch Youtube for 6 months, but thankfully my earlier work somehow spoke for me.

The New Yorker featured me and I got nominated for an IVLP. That's how I exited Channels 'gracefully.'

Office politics?

Man you don't even understand, I couldn't give two shits about Kiki Mordi - it's what the fuck she represents that I absolutely, utterly, completely detest.

The sheer gleefulness with which you prance around with work that YOU KNOW is NOT YOUR OWN.

Tufiakwa!!