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…BasketMouth, Brymo wade in
By Rita Okoye
The controversial verbal war between Peter Okoye, one of the PSquare artists, and Seun Kuti, a multi-instrumentalist, has continued to aggravate as other celebrities join in.
The duo had continued to throws shade at each other over who is the right presidential candidate to vote for in the forthcoming 2023 general election.
Seun Kuti had claimed in a recent video that some politicians gave him money to support them in 2015, but he refused, unlike his entertainment industry colleague Peter, who has been busy eating from politicians since 2015 and attending their campaigns.
Reacting in a new post, Peter derided the relevance of Seun’s music, claiming that “if not for Seun’s father, Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti, who would have known him?”
Peter went further to tell Kuti to stop making people lose interest in the electoral process.
The messy drama had started after Seun made a statement in an interview with “The Mic On Podcast,” where he argued that Nigeria cannot be saved by any politician but by Nigerians themselves.
“He hasn’t had the time because he started too late. “You can’t be telling me that just because you lost the PDP primaries 18 months before the election, you suddenly started a movement and have a plan for the country,” he said.
“No, that’s opportunism.” And it is not an opportunist who will bring Nigeria to its knees—not jumping on the Labor Party. The Labour Party has a socialist structure. Peter Obi is a capitalist. “Where are they going?”
Reacting, Peter Okoye argued that it is people like Peter Obi that can rescue Nigeria.
According to him, Obi is also a Nigerian.
“Dude just erased his father’s history!” You said only the people of Nigeria could save Nigeria! Is PO and the rest of the candidates not Nigerian? Shame! Shame!! Shame!!! “So disappointed,” he said.
Joining in the verbal war, popular comedian Bright Okpocha better known as Basketmouth subtly threw a shade at Peter Okoye for bringing in Seun’s father, Fela Kuti into their arguments.
Basketmouth tackled Okoye for undermining Fela, while trying to score a point in his argument with Seun Kuti.
He avowed that if our fathers never existed, many of us wouldn’t be alive.
“If our fathers never existed, we won’t be here. Nobody is ‘self made”, he wrote.
Brymo also weighed into the fiasco by slamming Peter Okoye for challenging Seun Kuti.
Defending Seun, he pointed out how Peter Okoye’s bragging about his status has belittled him.
Brymo stated that he doubted the singer’s success as he belongs to sponsors
“Bros…you never delete?…you go keep this post wey trifle your pops, just cause it reads like you are self-made and he inherited fame?…that’s your point right?…this belittle yours. This is quite self serving, I doubt you own your successes, you belong to your sponsors?”.
