Why cabbie drives passengers all around Ibadan in his wife’s dress is this
Cross-dressing is continually a rarity among mostly conservative Nigerian society. Those whose unique situation proved to have led them there often only get a raised brow or some other form of expression showing puzzlement.
In Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, a Micra cabbie identified as Afeez Adedigba has no concern about puncturing eyes from the public staring at him as he transports passengers to their destinations putting on a woman’s clothes.
The dress cab man Adedigba puts on has been uncovered to be the one belonging to his wife. This has caused riders who have spotted him wearing them to imagine seeing a viral sensation.
Witnessing such peculiarity in the slightly withdrawn Ibadan has sent chins wagging no doubt, hence an interview with a media personality named Ayo Adams to learn about the reason for the cross-gender dressing style. Is it a sordid taste of fashion that led to the driver making a scene inside the leased vehicle he has been cruising in?
There had been rumours that he had to put on a woman’s clothes because he got himself engaged in a fight and must have therefore lost his original men’s clothing but the mister refutes this.
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Yesterday, he told his interviewer that: This is not the only [clothes] of my wife that I have. They are about two.
He said that the first time I took the dress, it was raining heavily, and all my clothes were drenched. I had no choice but to take hers since I was still interested in working that day.
So now, I wear the dress when it rains and put on mine when it stops. That’s why it is always in my vehicle.
For Azeez Adedigba, the busy life as a cabbie was ordained by circumstance and not necessarily free will. The initial plan he had before hopping on the mini car was to trade in selling tyres but finding capital was a huge deterrent.
With the transport business, there is another lucrative money-making opportunity and the driver’s eyes are firmly focused on succeeding instead of minding what the general public has to say about what now appears to be his work uniform.
It has been quite an age [since] I’ve been driving this Micra. And I only seek God’s favour on the job.
I moved to driving when I couldn’t raise funds to start the sales of tyres that I learnt at a tender age.
Cross-dressing is continually a rarity among mostly conservative Nigerian society. Those whose unique situation proved to have led them there often only get a raised brow or some other form of expression showing puzzlement.
In extreme cases, they are tagged as members of the LGBTQ community which sadly comes along with some disaffection.
