By now, most Nigerians in the online community know about @MrAyeDee on Twitter.
Nigeria’s number 1 blogger Linda Ikeji had been in the eye of the storm when her blog came under attack two weeks ago which led to her blog being shut down by Google and restored about 24 hours later. She was being accused of copyright infringement by a shadowy character called Alexander Mukhtar Dan’Iyan, the editor-in-chief of the 15Past8 Media Group based in New York City. Dan’Iyan’s goes by the name @MrAyeDee.
Africa’s first Nobel Literature laurent Wole Soyinka doesn’t have kind words for Dan’Iyan whom he described in his memoiors as, “One was a self-hating Igbira, a minority tribe from the Nigerian hinterland, whose yearning to be mistaken for a Fulani aristocratic scion had resulted in his changing his name from Daniyan to Dan’Iyan”.
The whole Linda Ikeji Blog saga ended with Ikeji claiming that Dan’Iyan was scorned because she stopped chatting with him online. While, Dan’Iyan claimed he had no amorous interest in Ikeji.
Following the Linda Ikeji saga, Dan’Iyan turned his sights on Bola Tinubu. With a series of tweets he ‘revealed’ that the All Progressive Congress (APC) leader and his wife, Remi Tinubu, a serving Senator in the Nigerian Seante, was a confessed and convicted drug dealer in the United States who had to forfeit his wealth to the US government in exchange for his criminal record being sealed.
Fast forward to today and a woman, who identifies by her first name, Lizzy, emerges and grants an interview to Nigerian FM based in New York. She says she was married to Dan’Iyan for three years from 2001 and says he is a fraud and and he lives off women. She said he is a ‘419’ and a squatter who spends a lot of time on the Internet bringing down people. She said men and women have to be careful of him.
Listen to her interview with Emma Agu below.
This story is just getting more and more bizarre.
