Nollywood Star Jadesola Osiberu Faces Backlash For Attacking Peter Obi

Nollywood movie producer Jadesola Osiberu is currently facing backlash as social media users condemn her for recently shifting ground against her previous belief in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, whom she threw her weight behind against the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, during the 2023 presidential election.

On September 28, 2024, Osiberu posted on X, “My to-do list is mad long but what have I been doing all day? Social media dopamine scrolling. In T-pain’s economy?! Wonderful!”

In what the 39-year-old talented filmmaker could have thought was just a simple opinion she shared, this opinion was considered hypocrisy, while many on the Internet feel uncomfortable about it.

This attack came when a user on X, formerly known as Twitter, Orji, dug her 2022 post during a time when the presidential campaign was intense. In this post, Osiberu claims that Peter Obi is not a wealth creator.

Her post read, “I like the idea of someone who is frugal and has integrity running Nigeria but after hearing Peter Obi speak, I fear he’s the guy to trust with your money but not to multiply your wealth and Nigeria needs the latter. We need a big thinker to dig us out of this economic hole.”

Orji reacted to the post and tagged her a tribal bigot, “Were you not the same tribal bigot who said during the election that, he’s good at multiplying wealth, while Peter Obi isn’t? How come you’re now calling him ‘T-pain?’ I detest folks like you with every fiber of my being. This was you during the 2023 presidential election buildup.”

The filmmaker retorted, “This is part of the critical thinking problem I was talking about yesterday. You idiots combed through my entire timeline and couldn’t find a tweet supporting the current administration but you found a tweet that isn’t in support of your messiah and I’m a bigot?! You’re idiots!”

The throwback led to a lot of unpleasant comments targeted at her and caused a harsh disagreement between herself and Peter Obi’s supporters, who usually call themselves Obedients.

She then wrote, “You guys have been going wild since yesterday on this one tweet. I made a whole film critiquing APC’s political ideology and structure for which I was targeted and sued to court! I did not believe in Peter Obi either, which is my right and doesn’t make me a tribal bigot!”

“You cannot bully and insult people into believing in a candidate. You can engage intellectually and provide evidence that would convince them. At least that’s what you would expect sensible people to do,” she posted.