- Keyamo To Musician: You Begged To Join Buhari Campaign In 2018
- Jagajaga: It’s Not True
There has been a barrage of reactions, leading to an epic war of words between the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo and popular musician, Eedris Abdulkareem as Twitter deleted tweets where the former shared private chats exposing the phone number and the conversation he had with the later.
Twitter deleted the tweets by Keyamo for allegedly violating its rules.
The junior labour minister had claimed that Eedris humiliated him in his new album ‘Jagajaga Reloaded.’
In the deleted thread that had screenshots of text messages between him and the Jagajaga crooner, the minister revealed that Eedris who now criticizes President Muhammadu Buhari so much, had earlier in 2018 wanted to join the president’s campaign train.
Keyamo dragged Eedris in the mud, shared screenshot of texts where the singer begged to support Buhari in 2018.
The minister supported his claim with text exchanges between them in 2018.
He narrated that in 2018 when he was the director of strategic communications for the Buhari campaign, the musician had released a song to support the president’s second term and asked him to listen to it.
According to the minister, he told Eedris there was no financial budget to bring him in, adding that his job as a coordinator was on a voluntary basis.
Keyamo went ahead to say that he begged him that he needed N3 million to pay for his hotel and that his mother was sick too.
The minister said after finding out that the musician had told people different stories with the aim of getting money from them, he stopped seeing him.
However, the revelation was said to have violated Twitter rules.
Throughout Sunday, the microblogging site was questioned about Keyamo’s behaviour as many lampooned the Minister for his unethical behaviour.
However, recent checks revealed the tweets have been deleted by Twitter.
Responding to the allegations by Keyamo on his Instagram account, the Jaga Jaga singer admitted that he reached out to Keyamo when his mother was ill because he thought Keyamo was a ‘brother,’ but said Keyamo was attempting to blackmail him in the tweets.
He wrote, “JAGA JAGA TI GET E… Did Festus Keyamo join the cabal or not? When he was in prison, I stood by him; I fought Obasanjo on behalf of all the comrades in prison, I released Jagajaga.
“When my mother was dying, I reached out to a brother, or one I thought was a brother and a comrade. Could he have helped, yes. Did he help, NO. Such was the wickedness of his heart that he munched and kept personal details for three years… real Hallmark of a Blackmailer!” (sic).
He said, “In 2018, I still thought the man was a comrade. Thought he could effect change in the government he served. Then he joined the cabal, he became inner caucus and held the steering wheel spiralling Nigeria into doom. He joined to crush the revolution of the youths. He joined the cabal; the cabal which mowed down our youths at LEKKI TOLL GATE.
“With a vexed spirit, I went again to the studio for ‘Jagajaga Reloaded’ and the blackmailer went to town. The cabal is awoken. The cabal is hit. The cabal is in pain. The cabal is failing. The cabal will FALL.”
The singer said, “The blackmailer said I recorded a song for Buhari. The said song is titled: ‘Obasanjo Write Buhari Letter’. Here is the link to that song, listen and you will phantom the deviousness and dubiousness of the evil SAN (Senior Advocate Blackmailer of Nigeria) called Festus Keyamo.
“Issues raised on ‘Jagajaga Reloaded’ are facts. Nigeria never had it so bad. The Jagajaga has taken a gargantuan dimension. We must keep asking questions. We must ask the cabal questions.
“Festus Keyamo don join the cabal. He is in pains because his next ambition is to be governor of Delta State; perhaps to localise grand looting, terrorism, murdering and raping of our citizens, kidnapping, which his cabal have romanticised and packaged as banditry, and sundry other mis-governance. This is why Jagajaga ti get e! Festus Keyamo na cabal. Retweet if you agree and like if you don’t.”(sic).
- Read Some Reactions from Twitter:
“This is the double standard we talked about. Someone published unverified minutes of meeting on the same app and was widely circulated. That was not deleted by Twitter.” @alagakemi
“Shame on @fkeyamo ,many thanks to @Twitter !” @BusayoAdemiku1
“With that tweet Keyamo showed that there is no honor among thieves” @Emmanuel
“Let Twitter Remove Festus Keyamo Himself From Their Media If They So Wish, We Have The Receipts Already, The Receipts Are Everywhere.”
“We Have Even Archived Them.” @yinkaisola14
