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Tokunbo

 

August 22nd, 2024

 

 

Starring: Gideon Okeke, Adunni Ade, Tosin Adeyemi, Stanley Chibunna, Norbert Young, Aaron Sunday, Majid Michael, Darasimi Nnadi, Funfola Aofiyebi-Raimi

 

Genre: Drama

Written by: Todimu Adegoke, Thecla Uzozie

 

Produced by: Chris Odeh

 

Directed by: Ramsey Nouah

 

The storyline reads;

 

Tokunbo tells the story of a lagos breed who after many years of car smuggling, he eventually decides to become a family man

 

He switches to uber driving, inorder to be able to afford his one-year-old child's surgery. His deadlock is broken by Agba, a giant cryptocurrency trader and central bank deputy governor who promises him an offer that can solve his financial problems if he gets the job done.

 

The job is to smuggle the abducted 12 year old daughter of the CBN deputy governor to Badagry border in three hours amidst the ongoing search on the streets of Lagos which was flooded by the police. Nike got abducted as bait to stop the regulation of crypto in Nigeria scheduled to be announced that evening by 7pm on national tv 

 

Tokunbo is caught in a tightly woven web of crime where he has to choose between saving his wife, their only child and the daughter of a high profile officer