Some TV debates leave you with policy points. Others leave you staring at the screen like, “Ah, so this is where we are now?” Oseni Rufai and Lere Olayinka’s reported Arise TV face-off has people talking well beyond the studio lights.
Rufai said he would keep speaking truth to power after describing Olayinka’s appearance as a “show of shame.” Olayinka is widely known as an ally and media aide to FCT Minister Nyesom Wike, so the exchange has naturally pulled Wike’s political orbit into the conversation.
For viewers, the bigger gist is familiar: should political media sparring be this heated on live television, or is that exactly what keeps public officials and their defenders on their toes?
