Odion Ighalo under attack for attributing career success to favour

Favour is better than labour🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/a1NCvrIAVQ

— Odion Jude Ighalo (@ighalojude) November 26, 2019

Labour is better than favour 😋🙏🏾are we ok now? pic.twitter.com/mluRwdzksX

— Odion Jude Ighalo (@ighalojude) November 26, 2019

Ighalo hinged his success on the Favor of God upon his life . Overly educated twitter roughed him up saying “it’s hardwork not Favor” Ighalo is from South South , they live for football but just 1 out of 1000 get the chance . It’s Favor & grace that makes hardwork recognisable .

— Volqx (@volqx) November 27, 2019

TwitterNG didn’t even allow Odion Ighalo to tension us small, they entered his mentions and baba had to go and tweet again… 👀🤔😩 pic.twitter.com/vTmS2iOoWr

— 👑 DaddyMo 👑 (@therealdaddymo1) November 27, 2019

Ighalo knew what he was talking about. Do you know how many talented footballers in Ajegunle alone that never made it out Ajegunle?

— MistEmeka (@Em3kaE) November 27, 2019

Ighalo's name would be recognized forever having played at the world cup.

Are you even recognized on your street? https://t.co/XU2A1icg5U

— Bolu FootballCastle (@whedah) November 27, 2019

Ighalo called his own favour, Meunier called his own destiny. Steve Jobs also said: "You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever." pic.twitter.com/FsaOxmCRoJ

— Nwakibeya 🦋 (@Dikachim) November 27, 2019

Only “180 of the 1.5 million players who are playing organised youth football in England at any one time will make it as a Premier League pro.
That's a success rate of 0.012%.”

If Ighalo says it wasn’t just hard work, he is right.
For every Ronaldo that made it, over 100k won’t

— Sir SLK Junior (@naijacaesar) November 27, 2019

Twitter can be so funny. Ighalo is here recognising the power of God, or luck or favour or the universe or whatever positive mantra he believes in over talent.
Valid but crabs came to drag him.
You've not seen people that don't make anything of themselves inspite of heavy talent?

— Bolouere (@boluxxxx) November 27, 2019

Ighalo reiterated one thing you people have always said and believed in but it's an issue because he said it from a religious perspective.

Everyday on here, don't you all talk about how important connections and networking is? If your hardwork and certificates are enough,

— YOUR DADDY'S MAIN CHiC (@_MrsMalaprop) November 27, 2019

The outrage that the Odion Ighalo tweet caused (favour is better than labour) is just a typical example of other people thinking that they can interpret and understand your own journey and experiences better than you and also that people read to reply, rather than understand.

— 👑 DaddyMo 👑 (@therealdaddymo1) November 27, 2019

favor is better than labour in Nigeria many talented footballers are in ajegunle who labour very hard but favor do not locate them

some said Ighalo can’t get to the stage of Messi & Ronaldo cause they labour hard

If they knew were ighalo is coming from they will thank GOD 4 him

— QUDUS (@QdPaper) November 27, 2019