Nigerian TV and online presenter, Toke Makinwa, has said she was shocked by the backlash that trailed her recent visit to Dubai for the COP28 climate summit.
Social media was agog with condemnation from different quarters after it was discovered that Toke Makinwa was inclued in Nigeria’s 1411-man delegation to COP28.
Speaking on the event which has now concluded, the media personality said she accomplished everything she set out to do at Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Makinwa who revisited the matter in the latest episode of her podcast, Toke Moments, said she started taking the outrage seriously when “important people” started calling her.
She remembered when she went to a hotel in Dubai and some personalities that saw her started addressing her as ‘item 7’.
Her guest, actress Ini Edo asked: “How did your attendance of the COP28 Climate Summit in Dubai go? Did you get into the conversations from the panels?”
Makinwa replied: “Yes. I accomplished everything I set out to do with it [COP28]. I was just shocked [by the uproar]. And I think because Dubai is three hours [ahead of Nigeria], I woke up to see the backlash on social media.
“For me, it started feeling serious when important people started calling me. And I think that for me was funny. I walked into this hotel in Dubai where they were a lot of important people, all of them have seen the backlash and they started calling me ‘item seven’ and it was funny. We all just laughed. It was so funny.”
