Anything you run after will run away from you. Anybody you run after will run away from you too If you call people too frequently, after some time they will stop picking your calls If you visit somebody too frequently, after some time they won’t treat you with value again. Even the wife you are married to, if you behave as if you love her too much, she will take you for granted. If you behave as if knacking is like a drug for you, she will start making yanga with knacking Leave her alone for some days, for some weeks.
She will tell you: “I don turn to your sister for this house now oh.”
Don’t run after things. Develop yourself in such a way that money, people, and favour will run after you Me, I don’t ask women for their phone numbers. No.
I didn’t even do that when I was younger because I naturally fear women
It’s a fault — and I thank God for that ,It is women that ask for my phone number. It is women that take pictures with me
I don’t really go out.
I don’t mix with people much.
But it’s people that come to meet me.
Why? Because I developed myself.
I created value for myself
When too many people are rushing after one thing, I don’t panic.
I stay aside
Eventually, that thing — or that person — will come and look for me.
Everybody is shouting about one streamer that came to Nigeria — IShowSpeed.
I don’t know him.
He doesn’t know me.
1–1, draw
But I know Pararan.
I know Gordons.
I know Alibaba.
If I see Alibaba, Geh-Geh, or Gordons at the airport, I will greet them
Even though I’m older, I know they will reciprocate.
They are my own.
They are my people
I treasure them.
And in respecting them, I grow — and they grow
When we treasure ourselves like this, others will value us
But we Nigerians have a problem.
We don’t value who and what we have.
As for me, there was no better dribbler than JJ Okocha
No better striker today than Victor Osimhen
No better goalkeeper than Nwabali
Most of these so-called foreign celebrities?
Na hype. Just hype
If we hyped Fela the way other nations hype their own, who would be comparing Fela with his children’s age-mate?
My philosophy is simple:
If you don’t know me, I don’t know you.
If you are trying to avoid me, I will help you avoid me
If you don’t like me, na you sabi
If too many people are gathering in a place, I don’t go there and start introducing myself: “Do you know me?”
IShowSpeed came and Nigerians were fighting over each other — who he met, who he shook hands with.
Nonsense!
Some people hired donkey, some hired elephant
If you do well, he go know you.
Davido did not go there.
Burna Boy did not go there.
I was with Burna Boy last year in a hotel in Manchester
I did not go and look for him.
The guy nor know me — I go explain tire
I don’t let people treat me like trash!
Who born you?
Your mama born you, my mama born me.
If you be American, I be Nigerian
If your president na Trump, my president na Tinubu
Nigerian youths, show respect for yourself.
If you go to Ghana, you won’t see people running after you, begging you for money.
Benin Republic — you won’t see police or immigration begging you for money.
Ethiopia — despite the hardship, you won’t see people begging you for money.
But we? We are too desperate.
If IShowSpeed nor know you, you go die?
At least we know you.
Geh-Geh know you.
B-Lord know you.
Even if B-Lord nor know you, DeeOne know you
All those people that brought him, make una respect una selves.
Next time, don’t take him to places where people will harass him.
This na the country of Wole Soyinka, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Chinua Achebe, Osimhen
This na my country.
