How Big and  Bold is  Lere Olayinka?

She is shameless, she is sexually irresponsible, she owes salaries and she carries the name of a man she’s no longer married to. Kai, see 21st century spokesmanship according to the great and iconic Lere Olayinka, the very garrulous spokesman of Nyesom Wike.

These ones do not have time for the niceties and the elegant diplomatic retort of iconic spokesmen like Victor Oladokun and other superior spokesmen.

Being a spokesman used to be such a beautiful task. It involved the elegant use of words, aptly delivered without losing its bite but leveraging sweet persuasion to make very hard-hitting points. This “dem” Lere style is something out of the densely populated Oshodi motor park.

Their own is downright “roforofo,” reminiscent of the Fela Kuti anthem: ‘I no be gentleman at all o’. For them, it is bullish, brutish, abusive and verbally violent assault on opposing figures while carefully avoiding the issues.

Let me give an example.  Assuming I am the one unfortunately interviewing Lere on my almost dead podcast: “Mr. Lere, what is your take on the seeming insecurity under Wike in Abuja?”

This will likely be his response: “Duke you are mad. Didn’t they kick you out of secondary school? Were you not sleeping with housemaids and didn’t your wife slap you the other day? Well, Duke, you also eat too much and you came to beg me for money the other day and it is because I did not give you that you are asking me this silly question. Look, let me warn you Mr. Duke or whatever you call yourself, if you dare ask me any stupid question again, I will tell the whole world that you are addicted to porn…”

My people, this strategy in public defending is what I call the “Balu bla ba la bu” strategy and what this simply means is that, if you are selling a bad product or the case is very bad, you dodge the issue and go for the neck of the person making enquiry, simple. Very beautiful strategy.

Or how do you defend this – my father is very rich; he was a GM of many companies and I drove a Benz in school. 

I drive a Rolls Royce and Amaechi’s wife is not an industrialist.

Seriously, if you were in Lere’s position, and a Rufai Oseni takes you up on these bogus claims, is it to be talking like Pat Utomi or you immediately assume “agbero” status and grab Rufai”s neck?

Lere is the man of the times, I swear. Na him we deserve. We never ready. Kai.