Political commentator and social media expert, Japheth Omojuwa and Nollywood actress,  Mercy Aigbe, have reacted to the news making the rounds that an unidentified governor bought her a house in Lagos State.

The report had alleged that a sitting governor who it claimed she has a sexual relationship with bought her the house.

In an Instagram post, Omojuwa cautioned the rumours mongers saying no one sees the sleepless nights and hard work that Aigbe puts in that affords her an enviable lifestyle.

Aigbe also shared a series of post on her wall giving her two cents about the viral reports.

The actress wrote:

“No one saw all my late night shoots! Shooting almost 24hrs, No one saw my being on set back to back!!!!…..No one saw all those times I carry Goods on my head in London, LA, New York, Turkey, Vietnam and all……..

“No one sees my endorsements and influencing deals……

“Almost 15years as an Actor, I buy a house, they see it as a big deal! They try to tag every wealthy man they know to my Sucess because they just can’t comprehend how and why a woman should be successful ……

“Y’all wait till I open my Complex, then maybe y’all will kuku take poison untop my matter ???I am just getting started ??

“Abeg that miracle that will leave people in awe, confusion to the extent that they will start insinuating and speculating all sorts…. just cos they can’t fathom what the Lord has done for you, may the Lord grant it unto you IJN!

“Dear Bloggers, the mumu upcoming script writer! and association of instablog bad belle, jobless commentators…

“This house you see in this picture was bought with my hard work and God’s grace( not that I owe y’all an explanation)……..since you have taken it upon yourselves to be in my business, pls employ a very good private investigator, a pastor, an Alfa or a Babalawo to help you in further investigations….so you won’t be peddling stupid rumours that has no iota of truth in it!….let me quickly warn you that more is coming oh!!!”

Omojuwa on the other hand wrote;

“A society can never advance beyond the collective mentality of its people. Poor societies are poor because their systems are set up to make people poor but essentially because there is a mentality that drives poverty, cultures it and amplifies it.

“The same mentality that kills or gets on the way of enterprise. I know these two enterprising ladies. Without knowing them personally, you see them creating businesses and products and getting stuff done.

“They create products, write, create platforms, movies, sign endorsement deals…their path to wealth is apparent to any rational person. But ours is a society that suspects progress and wealth.

“When a young person is rich, even with an apparent value creation system, we ascribe their success to everything other than the fact that they create value and earn income.

“These days, we have blogs and sites focused on damaging people’s reputation than pushing progress. You create a product and they look away; someone starts a dirty unfounded rumour and they jump on it.

“They amplify. They drop denigrating comments. Some people subconsciously think that the reason their own lives are failing is because others are progressing.

“We need to do better. When a lady succeeds or starts to shine, we ascribe their success to the rich and powerful. Even some women with powerful platforms either push or amplify this madness.

“We are disempowering young girls. We are telling them being enterprising is a lie. That working smart and hard is useless because to succeed you have to be dating a governor.

“They believe this because of the lies we form and amplify about the successes of those they look up to. We go to church on Sundays, to the Mosque on Fridays, to the Shrine and we pray to succeed.

“To thrive. We work hard too. But when we see others succeed, we insist they had sex with someone, they are gay, they are anything but the culmination of their sweat and intellect.

“Our leaders are mostly bad. Our collective mentality is actually worse. These are human beings. Young girls making a living. For each time you push this myth that these folks succeed because of some immoral acts with men, remember your daughter, your sister…let’s do better!”