Thread by @DavidHundeyin

For the record, there are several types of dishonesty that do not involve direct falsehoods. It's possible to lie by omission, implication and misrepresentation.

Whether this bloke did not expressly claim to be a lawyer or not, he DID absolutely misrepresent himself as one.

His repeated use of the term "Distinguished" in his engagement here had only one clear and obvious implication.

His constant humorous jibes where he'd say "my client" this, and "we are suing" that were not mere jokes. They contained an unspoken but very clear implication.

His offering of what purported to be legal reviews of several pieces of legislation including the CAMA 2020 bill and the Police Reform Act 2020 was very clear and unsubtle signaling.

Even I at a time believed him to be a lawyer before I bothered to take a second look at him.

In the tweet below, he responded to an appeal for corporate lawyers who had reviewed the CAMA 202O bill.

Yes, he was smart enough to not expressly say "I am a lawyer," but that is a semantic issue - the intent and implications are clear and unambiguous.

https://twitter.com/segalink/status/1295317997758885895?t=qNZ26MtSXWmGwPY602dttA&s=19

Segalink is NOTORIOUS for this exact sort of implied falsehood, typified by the exchange below where he implies that he is the person standing next to Fela in the photograph, without expressly saying so.

The person in the photograph is actually the late Dr. Tunji Braithwaite

This is how Segun Awosanya aka @segalink has built a whole career on lies, misrepresentations, and exaggerations. You can draw the line back to his involvement in the #EndSARS protest movement which was actually pioneered by @Letter_to_Jack, but which he now claims he "convened."

Also for the record, the whole "Segalink helped people get out of police custody" shtick was one big production born out of a political tussle between former Interior Minister Abdulrahman Dambazau and former Police IG Ibrahim Kpotun Idris.

He's what Igbos call "onye oso afia."

He was a political contractor working for Aliyu Gebi @alouibrahim92 of the Ministry of the Interior, whose boss Dambazau had a problem with the police IG.

So when you'd get arrested and tag Segalink and get released, all he was doing was calling this guy.

https://twitter.com/segalink/status/1031878178212667393?t=pHumRqOqDXFLN_4YF_LMTQ&s=19

He also fed the public impression that he was a hotshot lawyer by misrepresenting his political contract with the Interior Ministry via @alouibrahim92 as some sort of legal acumen/high powered connection.

Segun Awosanya is nobody and nothing. A simple hustler and grifter.

He saw the hashtag @Letter_to_Jack created and jumped on it to do his political "oso afia" work. That was how he crowbarred his way from absolutely nowhere to some sort of "national figure."

That's also why he was so opposed to the #EndSARS protest. It endangered his contract.

TLDR: Segun Awosanya is a serial con artist, political contractor and grifter who misrepresents EVERYTHING about himself and has nothing but the most selfish motivations.

Even the good things he once did were merely part of a contract intended to discredit a previous police IG.

Bonus post:

https://twitter.com/MhideBanks/status/1539967586472824835?t=G00_6a_1ld_qw0EZDX6wYg&s=19

Onye oso afia.

THE LIES. Goddamn.