Viral Photo Of Yusuf Welcoming Peter Obi To Lagos Put Up For Sale On Opensea

A viral photo of Yusuf standing with his arms wide open in front of Peter Obi’s SUV to welcome the Labour Party presidential candidate to Lagos on Saturday has been fraudulently listed for sale on the OpenSea NFT marketplace.

IexclusiveNews reports that Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are cryptographic assets that have unique identification codes.

It provides a platform for people to create arts, images, videos, and memes and sell them digitally as NFTs.

Esther Umoh, a photographer and poet, shot the viral photo of Mr Obi in Lagos.

However, iexclusivenews Nigeria reports that an unknown person had fraudulently listed the photo for sale on OpenSea for $767.11.

Despite the photo bearing the word “pendrops,” which is Esther’s trademark.

The photo is titled The New Nigeria in the Marketplace and will be available for purchase for the next 27 days, until March 11th.

“Putting up my work on @opensea without my permission is really not a great thing to do. I don’t know who this person is,” Esther said on Twitter, Sunday afternoon.

She went on to say that four of her seven siblings are lawyers, implying that she will be sued.

Meanwhile, she has asked Twitter users to assist her in reporting the fraud to OpenSea.

Mr Obi, Esther, and the young man in the photo have all received praise for the photograph, which has been dubbed “Photo of the Year” by some Nigerians.

“Good photography is not about carrying expensive cameras, it’s all capturing great and iconic moments and @EstherUmoh10 knows exactly how to do that,” said a Twitter user, @Ceephic.