Article written by actress Mercy Johnson Okojie…My picture and that of my daughter, Purity in a Lagos train has surfaced online and quite a number of people have asked me what I was doing in a train and in Lagos for that matter; not Paris or London. I was around Iddo at Ebute Metta when my Range Rover developed a mechanical fault and I had to make a very important appointment in Ikeja regardless of the usual traffic congestion in Lagos. Luckily, a member of my management team was around, he suggested a train ride and we were in Ikeja in less than 30 minutes but that is not the crux of this statement. Like I mentioned earlier, I have had to answer questions in private and public as to why I would board a train because trains in Nigeria are considered a means of transportation for the ordinary and not-so-rich people. A friend called and said I just devalued my brand by being on the train with ordinary people. I couldn’t help but laugh. Are we extra ordinary people because we are celebrities? In as much as I understand the concept of branding, packaging and exclusiveness, I will never trade the experience to sit, interact and feel the pulse of so-called ordinary people. By the way, I am part of the ordinary people. I grew up as an ordinary person among ordinary people. Why would I avoid them now? Would that be because I am now famous? Without these ordinary people, how would I have been famous in the first place? Without the so called ordinary people, where would Nigeria’s growing population of so-called well packaged celebrities be today? For the purpose of clarification, I was not on that train due to lack of money to get awell packaged cab or to get somebody to bring another car from the house but, my car developed an unforeseen fault and I needed a fast , reliable and convenient alternative immediately as there was urgent business to be attended to and I respect time a lot.The train was available where I was; most importantly, I did not want to turn down the opportunity to be with the people whowould ordinarily not have access to me so I grabbed the opportunity with both hands and here we are. I want to thank my co-passengers, officials of the train for treating me with absolute respect and courtesy, I am indeed, very grateful...
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You see what is called understanding.. MJ u rock jare..

You see what TRANSFORMATION is called also.. GEJ u rock pass joor..

GEJ till tinubu buys Oral-B toothpaste

That's DUMEBI the dirty girl... Nice sense of humor

Ordinary people ke? Rang Rover ni? Kind of story u can only hear in Nigeria

So she felt the need to address such trivial issue and even had the effrontery to call them ordinary. Range rover ko! Train rover Ni!

She is not even light skinned, and I bet it is not a 2014 range rover sport that was paid cash for. no offensisi.

Evina
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So she felt the need to address such trivial issue and
even had the effrontery to call them ordinary. Range rover ko! Train
rover Ni!

She is not even light skinned, and I bet it is not a 2014 range rover
sport that was paid cash for. no offensisi.

Jealousy is Not a Job,please Ny sister Get a Job!

danbrowndmf:
Jealousy is Not a Job,please Ny sister Get a Job!

Woman wrapper is NOT a job! My brother get a job!
Or maybe because you offer the voluntary service of defending people who DONT know you or care about your existence, you got confused into thinking you got a job?

Thought she's gonna mention the amount given to her by PEJ!

Evina
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Woman wrapper is NOT a job! My brother get a job!
Or maybe because you offer the voluntary service of defending people who
DONT know you or care about your existence, you got confused into
thinking you got a job?

If You Dnt Get Paid 4 haten.then Your Just a ........

Airforce1 cm complete am 4me

ordinary people? na wa o. we don collect the insult na. thank you

Evina:
So she felt the need to address such trivial issue and even had the effrontery to call them ordinary. Range rover ko! Train rover Ni!

She is not even light skinned, and I bet it is not a 2014 range rover sport that was paid cash for. no offensisi.

people can jelous...which one do you have, if you continue to jelous other people, e go hard u oooo

MJ, carry go...the only actress that has bn able to hold her home/fame with simplicity...we married d right celeb jor..
Egbefuere our obhiaha

Midehi:

people can jelous...which one do you have, if you continue to jelous other people, e go hard u oooo

MJ, carry go...the only actress that has bn able to hold her home/fame with simplicity...we married d right celeb jor..
Egbefuere our obhiaha

It is jealous not jelous
I am typing this comment with my gold coloured iPhone 5s, while chilling in my £74,000 red coloured 2015 Range Rover Sport, paid cash!

If I was really hating on MJ, I won't give her roles to act.

danbrowndmf:
If You Dnt Get Paid 4 haten.then Your Just a ........

Airforce1 cm complete am 4me

And if you don't get paid for being a busy body, you're just a... Mercy Johnson, come and complete the sentence.

Evina:


It is jealous not jelous
I am typing this comment with my gold coloured iPhone 5s, while chilling in my £74,000 red coloured 2015 Range Rover Sport, paid cash!

If I was really hating on MJ, I won't give her roles to act.

Hahahahahahahaha....i like this, giving ursef hope cos u are almost hopeless

pls correct my "ursef, u" miss hopeles lecturer

Even Rebuen Abatti first tweeted it this afternoon and that means just ØNE thing; it has a political underpin, no questions about that.

Dis is y I wil 4 eva respect dis lady. She's jst 2 mch

And as 4 those hating her,u can all go ahead cos hating is allowed. She doesn't gve a fvck abt any of u

Nigerians ehn!...just get small money, dem go begin dey point fingers down dey call people "ordinary"

I feel she's campaigning for GEJ...na dem sabi

The topic is misleading.....I thought she called other people in the train ordinary....before reading the whole story...

Midehi:

Hahahahahahahaha....i like this, giving ursef hope cos u are almost hopeless

pls correct my "ursef, u" miss hopeles lecturer

It is yourself, not ursef and it is hopeless not hoples
My gawd, babe you really need to focus on improving your spellings rather than watch these nollywood movies all day.

No offensisi.

Evina:


It is yourself, not ursef!
My gawd, babe you really need to focus on improving your spellings rather than watch these nollywood movies all day.

No offensisi.

tnx 4 d correction...shud i continue?

Midehi:

tnx 4 d correction...shud i continue?

It is should, not shud!
Mehn your case is hopeless! I give up!

No offensisi.

Evina:


It is should, not shud!
Mehn your case is hopeless! I give up!

No offensisi.

oh dnt giv up..am learning na

Midehi:

oh dnt giv up..am learning na

You are too hard to teach!
I may consider only if you've ever been to London.
Can you spell London?

No offensisi.

Evina:


You are too hard to teach!
I may consider only if you've ever been to London.
Can you spell London?

No offensisi.

yondon

Midehi:

yondon

What? It must be the mosquitoes in that your village that bit your fingers.

So if you never been to London and you can't spell, what can you do?

Evina:



What? It must be the mosquitoes in that your village that bit your fingers.

So if you never been to London and you can't spell, what can you do?

I can spell your name..Evina

Midehi:

I can spell your name..Evina

Good.
Class dismissed.

Evina:


Good.
Class dismissed.

tanchu ....oh!!! sorry, thank you.

While I don't blame her for the publicity/campaign stunt, I fault her choice of word in describing the hardworking hoi polloi who are victims of the misgovernance by the government she's campaigning for. Besides, the real 'ordinary people' can't afford the #750 (Ijoko-Iddo) train but the refurbished #230 ones where they are packed in like sardines.

So Mercy, when next you want to use the transformation in the railway sector to campaign, please, board the locomotives an ordinary Nigerian can afford and don't forget to show us different 'selfies' you took in the course of your journey...‪#‎I‬ personally will mobilize people to vote for GEJ if at the end, you still have your Marykay makeup intact.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwvrhwDBefo

"Ordinary people"?

She didn't need to explain, who cares

Mercy J, just give us the twitter handle of that 'ordinary people' tagging person.