Nigerian singer and rapper, Eedris Abdulkareem has mentioned that he didn’t assault Seyi Tinubu together with his new tune, ‘Inform your papa”.
He mentioned he solely replied to a press release made by the president’s son that his father, Bola Tinubu, is Nigeria’s best-ever president.
Abdulkareem said this on ‘Rubbin’ Minds’, a programme on Channels Tv on Sunday.
DAILY POST studies that the youthful Tinubu made the assertion in Yola, the Adamawa State capital, in March 2025.
In keeping with the rapper, his new tune ‘Inform Your Papa’ was not an assault on Seyi however a name for the president’s son to inform his father to handle Nigeria’s financial and safety challenges.
“Nigerian youths are simply asking for fundamentals: electrical energy, safety, enabling financial surroundings, job creation and never palliatives.
“So, why ought to I assault Seyi Tinubu personally? If Seyi Tinubu by no means talked about it, I wouldn’t have recorded a tune like that. So, I’m replying to the video that he made. If he had saved quiet, I wouldn’t have mentioned something. I’m impressed by Seyi Tinubu to report that tune,” he mentioned.
Recall that the Nationwide Broadcasting Fee, NBC, instantly tagged Abdulkareem’s new tune as inappropriate and banned it on radio and tv.
Many Nigerians, together with Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, have criticised the ban.
Soyinka described the event as a return of censorship and a risk to the precise to free speech.
Eedris Abdulkareem, through the tv programme, lamented that 24 years after he launched a earlier tune, ‘Nigeria jagajaga’, the tune continues to be related as a result of Nigeria has not skilled the mandatory growth.
