Uncle Tobi

A last roll of the dice 🎲 The absolute most stressful and worst part of organising #OyaMakeWeGroove is getting a venue. No matter how early I plan, something goes wrong. 2 years ago, I was sure to use the then almost to be completed Sporting Lagos facility. The owners of Nigeria said "not this time". Last year, our venue was revoked Wednesday before the Saturday. In one day, my man Adedeji (e no dey ever like acknowledgement) worked magic and pulled all favors to get Access Bank to give us their car park In Oniru as an *exceptional* one time favor. Approval came after work hours On Friday for a Saturday event. I'm forever grateful 🙏🏾. As a result of that experience, I finalized the venue for this year, last December. I visited it with the person in April. When it was time to activate in September, akụkọ entered. Stories. Venue no dey available again. By then, the very few manageable places have mostly been booked. My team has frankly, looked everywhere. - In a throw of the last dice, I'm here to make a public request: If you know or have access to a space that can fit 500-1000 people in VI, Ikoyi or Lekk, please holla. If against the odds I can see a bar with a large outdoor space, that's would be wonderful. Open fields (we dey call am garden) can work. Carparks too. Please DM, drop a comment or send me a message. It would be an irony if I could manage to keep this on during the COVID years, living 7,000 kms away from Laogs, but fail at a simple huddle. Getting a venue. Or maybe it is the clearest signal to force my coconut head to bring this to a conclusion, and begin owning my Decembers for the first time since 2016😁. Either way, I'm making this final push 🙏🏾 Thank you.