Faith Morey Responds to Iyabo Ojo Slamming Her For Not Being Able to Speak Her Language

The Real Housewives of Lagos season two is over now, but last year, the show drove a lot of conversation online. One of the talking points from the season was a game held on the show where housewives were given a quote which they had to read in their native dialect. On the show, Faith Morey revealed that she didn't know how to speak her native tongue and fellow housewife Iyabo Ojo slammed her for that onscreen saying she claims to be ghetto but doesn't know how to speak her tongue. Now, in a new interview with Arise, Faith Morey is finally addressing Iyabo Ojo's comments. Here is what the housewife had to say.

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During the interview Faith Morey was asked "How did you feel when Iyabo Ojo was like 'you say you're from the ghetto but you can't speak your language' cuz that's something that I think has been a major conversation. Did you think that was necessary?" to which she respsonded:

FAITH MOREY: Well, I'm from Port Harcourt and what do PH people say online? See, the fact that my Port Harcourt people are fighting for me or supporting me on that, I'm good. Do you understand? Because in Port Harcourt, if you live in PH, you know better - that pidgin English, which I'm very fluent in pidgin English. One of the reasons why I joined the Real Housewives of Lagos minus bringing my business on the show was also showing people like me that it's okay. It's okay for you to own your story, it's okay for you to be kind to people even though you meet one thousand people along the way that are mean to you - do not change who you are. It is okay for you to take a year or six years to make someone your friend or call someone your friend because friendship to us is family to some of us. So I wanted girls to know that it doesn't matter where you're from. Why are you comparing, trying to differentiate the both of us? That's insecurity. Why are you going I'm from Anambra, you have to stay here, you're from Port Harcourt, you have to stay here, I'm from Yoruba, you have to stay here. We're all women, why are we fighting Caucasians overseas over discrimination if we are doing the same thing back home?

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