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Former Your View host, Morayo Afolabi-Brown, has admitted that her past criticism of former Anambra State governor, Peter Obi, was based on ignorance and a lack of proper understanding of his record in office.

The veteran media personality during an interview with Chude Jideonwo, confessed that her comments against the Labour Party presidential candidate were not well-informed.

“It was because I did not know him. After I made that comment, people called me and said, ‘Morayo, do you realise that when he was governor, he actually served us@?’

“So that was him. I said, ‘Oh, I did not know,’” she said.

The broadcaster also opened up about her battle with depression, recalling how she once considered taking her own life.

“I was depressed. It got so bad that I thought I was suicidal. I just left everything behind.

“I remember just walking on the express, hoping a car would hit me. It was that bad,” she revealed.

Afolabi-Brown explained that she decided to step away from Your View after the show’s tenth anniversary, saying she had long harboured the thought of moving on.

“It was when we were 10 years old that I knew it was time to move on to the next thing.

“I’ve been harbouring that thought for a while, but I just didn’t know to what or where, you know.

“But I think last year, I got that light bulb moment,” she said.

Brown further narrated how she was sacked from TVC until her identity became known to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

“People now call Asiwaju, ‘Do you know whose child was sacked?’ He said, ‘I’m not aware.’

“He said, ‘This is the Alao Aka-Bashorun’s daughter. That’s when he knew it was me,” she recalled.

On controversies during her career, she revisited the uproar that trailed an on-air interview in which she was accused of calling her husband a pedophile.

According to her, the First Lady’s intervention helped her make peace and publicly apologise.

Her exit from Your View, she noted, marked the end of her 12-year journey on the breakfast show.

Niccoloimhotep:
Same way helinues and Yarimo would regret one day in the future 🌚

DMerciful:
Peter Obi's only crime is deciding to run for president!

REDshouse:
Her own view not mine....obi is obi and a baranda....

Seun pls help me add more content to make it 40

Eboofa:
Obi tried in Anambra considering he was impeached twice! His achievements in education was impressive and has been enduring! His political sagacity is however questionable..........he was unable to get a good successor!

YesDaddyTill203:
No need for this attempt at revisionist history. Obi was a failure, and no amount of revisionism can change that.

What was said about you while in office is more important than whatever they are saying when you decide to run for office. Tribal and religious sentiments have changed a lot of what they are saying about Obi now.

What were the citizens of Anambra saying when he was in office? Not what they are saying now that they are desperate for a Igbo President.

Look at the dates on these tweets...that's very important..

emkz:
How come those who praise Peter Obi to high heavens now never saw anything good about him while he was governor?

bassdow:
She now can talk FREEly since She's no longer with TVC

bassdow:
but seriously, this name OBI na wahala for some people Ooo