Fake News! We’re Not Selling Any of Captain’s Assets-Okunbo Family

Someone would argue that the world, as it is today, is more dangerous than the world of yesteryears. With technology granting any individual with a good internet connection a measure of omnipotence, there’s really nothing that is not thrown out into the untethered and unguarded space that is the web. Fake news, for example.

A few days ago, reports started coming in regarding the assets of the late Chairman of Ocean Marine Solutions Limited, Captain Idahosa Okunbo. According to the most popular of these reports, the family of the late billionaire businessman had decided to lessen the stress of managing his nearly boundless accumulation of wealth by selling off some of his assets.

Among the assets that are supposedly for sale is Okunbo’s super luxury hotel that is situated in the Asokoro area of Abuja, The Wells Carlton Hotel and Apartments. This is a monster of an edifice with no fewer than 55 rooms of sprawling excellence. It has the typical components of a luxury hotel: bars, restaurants, swimming pools, spas, all the usual attachments. Except many grades higher than you would get anywhere else for a facility that is only two years and about eight months old. Hence, for any person with a bit of money, this is the perfect spot to sink said funds.

This is why the report of the family selling off the hotel has been like a hurricane blowing across Nigeria. It is not just ill-timed for the grieving family members, but a dent on the reputation of the Okunbos.

Thus, there have been several responses from the family denying the whole thing. They described the most popular report as “evil and reprehensible concoction of preposterous fallacy by a mischievous author/authors of the above piece under reference.”
While all this is going on, smart folks are wondering how the news came about in the first place? What are said mischievous authors trying to accomplish? Maybe this is one of those things that only time can resolve.