Controversial activist, VeryDarkMan, has pledged to sponsor the video shoot of new protest song, ‘Tell Your Papa,’ which was recently banned by the Nigerian government.
Recall that the Federal Government, through the National
Broadcasting Commission, NBC, banned the song on Thursday, describing it as
inappropriate and offensive.
In a twist of fate, the ban brought significant attention to
the song, which was largely unnoticed prior to the ban.
Reacting, VDM criticised the federal government for banning the song from Nigerian radio and television, arguing that what the singer said in the song was true.
He vowed to support Abdulkareem to re-do the video.
Speaking in a video message shared via his social media
page, VeryDarkMan said, “I went to Eedris Abdulkareem’s page and saw the
message NBC sent to him that they have banned his song, ‘Tell Your Papa,’
wherein he asked Seyi Tinubu, son of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to tell his
father that there is hardship in the country and people are dying.
“So the government doesn’t want to hear it on the stations,
and they know he is saying the truth. Isn’t there hardship in the country?
Ain’t people dying from insecurity?
“This is what we are going to do now. First of all, we don’t
even know radio. How many people listen to radio or watch TV? That’s by the
way. We are going to take it over by social media.
“Dear, Eedris Abdulkareem, we are going to shoot another
video. This time, we will sponsor it. I will be in the video. We will also look
for Tinubu’s lookalike since we can’t get the President to be in the video. We
will remake the video, ‘Tell Your Papa 2.’ Then, we will also highlight other
problems.
“That [the ban] is to say, this people listen to what is
going on in Nigeria but they don’t want to act. Then when you talk, they want
to control the media so that you don’t have a voice and this voice doesn’t
exceed what they can control.”
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