What we can learn from Linda's pregnancy saga;


Gather round students of left economics. Let’s use a
good example in the Linda Ikeji saga to help you understand what rentier & crony capitalism is all about. According to Linda,her Baby Father was living in a rented 3-bedroom apartment in an obscure area in Lekki where she has to



drive 2 hours from Banana Island any day konji calls just to get the D. Ok, now this was in 2014, in a Nigeria led by a very “corrupt” PDP government who if you believe these Saints stole everything there was to steal. Great. We lose the elections and the Saints take over with a



Promise to “fight corruption” and turn things around. Now, Linda tells us that when she finally reconnected with the said Sholaye Jeremi, in 2017, and they resumed their “Kerewa”, the Sholaye was bragging that he was going to inject some “billionaire” spermatozoids into Linda to



Make a “billionaire baby”. So, under three years, Sholaye moved from being a man who was donating ‘tozoids’ to Linda from a three bedroom apartment to a billionaire playing in the Oil and gas sector in Nigeria. I did some snooping around and found out that Sholaye is buddies



With, wait for it, our Junior Petroleum Minister, St. Ibe Kachikwu.Fantastic. Now a billionaire, dude is no longer on same level with Linda.Come on, oil money and money from Internet “olofofo” or blogging are not on the same level. So,he Japas leaving Linda with a bundle of joy.



How you move from a rented shack to a billionaire in 3 years, without selling anything, without developing a ground breaking e-solution soft or hardware, without robbing a bank, not winning any lotteries, with no family members dying to leave you their wealth but by simply



Being buddies with someone who knows someone who controls the pie is what crony and rentier capitalism is all about.

copied from twitter.

At the end of the day the story might turn out a lie. Since we can not hear from both sides of the equation I will assume it is a fabrication until proven otherwise.