all over Ijebu-Ode, it was partying, wining,
dining and socialisation nonstop for three whole days, Friday, Saturday and
Sunday. For those 72 hours, Ijebuode became one huge nonstop cultural, fashion, entertainment and
business ecosystem. There were canopies everywhere, booze was flowing freely
everywhere people were dancing and
gyrating everywhere and those who could
not rent chairs and canopies made do with what they could afford. I came across
a family that danced to the sound coming from a car stereo. Houses that appeared ‘abandoned’ all along came to live and rams , despite the
outrageous costs, were mercilessly executed and depopulated. Convoys with alarms
filled everywhere as ‘bigmen’ overwhelmed the sleepy town, with their big cars,
expensive convoys, outriders and all the paraphernalia’s of bigmanism. The
entertainment headquarters of Nigeria relocated from Lagos to Ijebuode and you know what it meant that Ebenezer Obe and
Kwam 1, among others, stormed the town simultaneously.... Read, savour and share