Admin l Sunday, April 25, 2021
LAGOS, Nigeria – Jagajaga reloaded, the latest music released by Nigeria Jagajaga exponent, Eedris Abdulkareem has elicited a lot of response from Nigerians on the social media.
Most prominent among the reaction is coming from Minister of State for Niger Delta Affiars, Mr. Festus Keyamo, who was mentioned and criticised for joining the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
Festus Keyamo, known for his human-rights records used his reaction to expose the musician, describing the music as nothing but cheap blackmail.
The minister use his introduction to actually review Jagajaga reloaded and indeed do a promotional piece, albeit negative on the music.
“Eedris Abdulkareem just released a song, ‘jagajaga reloaded’, where he waxed the following lyrics, “where Festus Keyamo sef? He don dey chop with cabal o”. I laughed out so loud and even danced to the rhythm too. But there’s a small story behind this poor attempt at blackmail
“ In 2018, when I was named the Director of Strategic Communications for Buhari Campaign Organisation Eedris waxed a song in support of Buhari & wanted to join us, albeit for a fee. He then made desperate efforts to see me through text messages from his phone
“ When I finally met with him, I listened to the songs, but told him I had no budget for such or any for that matter. I explained that my job was voluntary. It was the same thing I told so many other so-called activists-by-day-and-hustlers-at-night who secretly approached me
“ Shortly after this episode when he could not penetrate the system to get the money he so desperately wanted, he then endorsed Atiku and called Buhari a ‘fraudster’. See one of the links here… https://m.guardian.ng/life/eedris-abdulkareem-calls-president-buhari-a-successful-fraudster/…. But we decided to ignore his weak voice of opposition.
“ After our victory, he went berserk and joined every protests against the same Buhari whom he wanted to serve with his whole ‘body and soul’, but needed money to do so. He has been mentioning my name specifically at occasions as if I am the cause of all his troubles in life
“Now, the latest is the ‘jagajaga reloaded’ that he has waxed to vent his frustrations at not getting into the system. His reference to me as ‘chopping’ reminds me of the gaffe of then Minister Sunday Afolabi who infamously said Bola Ige was invited to Govt to ‘come and chop’!
“I wish to assure Eedris and any who think being in Govt is tantamount to ‘chopping’, that for some of us (I can’t speak for others) it is just an honour to serve our country and an attempt to move from armchair criticism to a real participant in order to make a difference.
“Finally, we can all sit back and enjoy the ‘jagajaga reloaded’. One of the objectives of the song is to call me out since I ghosted him for attempted extortion – he has now succeeded. Another objective is to help promote the song by my reaction – that he has also achieved!”, he said.
