Musician Eedris Abdulkareem has replied the minister of state for labour and employment Festus Keyamo who on Saturday night made scathing allegations against the singer.
In a Twitter thread, Mr Keyamo alleged Eedris referred to him as part of the âcabalâ in his new song âJaga Jaga Reloadedâ because he did not help him join the Buhari team ahead of the general elections in 2019.
Keyamo said he was the director of strategic communications for Buhari Campaign Organisation in 2018 when Eedris approached him, but added that the singer appeared to him like a âhustlerâ.
However, Eedris fired back in an Instagram post on Sunday, emphasising his stance that Keyamo had joined the âcabalâ.
âWhen he [Keyamo] was in prison, I stood by him, I fought Obasanjo on behalf of all the comrades in prison, I released Jagajaga,â he wrote.
âWhen 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, NOâŚsuch was the wickedness of his heart that he munched and kept personal details for three yearsâŚreal Hallmark of a Blackmailer!
âIn 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.
âHe joined to crush the revolution of the youths, he joined the cabal. The cabal which mowed down our youths at LEKKI TOLL GATE.
âWith a vexed spirit, I went again to the studio for âJagajaga Reloadedâ and the Blackmailer went to town. The cabal is awoken.
âThe cabal is hit. The cabal is in pain. The cabal is failing. The cabal will FALL.â
Responding to the claim he recorded a song to promote Buhari ahead of 2019 elections, Eedris said: âThe said song is titled: âObasanjo Write Buhari Letter.’â
âIssues 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,â he added.
âFestus Keyamo don join the cabal. He is in pains because his next ambition is to be governor of Delta State.
âPerhaps 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!â
Eedris featured Mr Raw in the four-minute song which is a remake of his 2003 hit single âJaga Jagaâ which the Obasanjo administration banned from Nigeriaâs airwaves.
