A twitter user requested that he remove some news that he had posted after it was discovered that it was false. Rufai responded by saying that only in Nigeria would someone with a PhD from a UK university be unable to understand basic English and capitalize the fact that they hold a PhD.
Intellectual sapa is the mindset that leads some people to believe that by including their PhD in their Twitter bio, they are somehow superior to others. If you need to announce to the world that you have a PhD, you are probably not yet having an impact, he said.
However, the Twitter user who had a PhD responded to him, saying that having a PhD from one of the top five business schools in the UK is not something that some of us will hide in a corner because someone who enjoys f@ke news feels ins¥lted by crit¥cism of it.