Popular Nigerian musician Oladapo Daniel professionally known as D’Bank has dissociated himself from a viral comment online attributed to him in which fellow artiste Seun Kuti was attacked with derogatory remarks.
Remarks credited to D’Banj surfaced online on Sunday through an account with the musician’s name, calling Seun a man with low intelligence due to substance abuse who should have focussed more on making music than dabbling into politics.
The comments came against the backdrop of online fisticuff the son of legendary Fela Anikulapo Kuti had with Paul Okoye of PSquare over the presidential candidate of the Labour Party Peter Okoye.
However, the Why Me crooner vehemently shot down the remarks, insisting that he never authored comments online regarding ‘his brother’ Seun and never authorised anyone to do so on his behalf.
The singer placed the disclaimer on the remarks through his lawyer Pelumi Olajengbesi on Monday.
The lawyer said in the statement seen by our correspondent, “This is to notify the general public that Mr. Oladapo Daniel (D’Banj) never made nor could make any derogatory or disparaging statement against anybody, especially within the entertainment industry, nor has he directed the publication of any such material on his behalf. Never!
The general public is thus advised to disregard the mischief of a publication maliciously pushed to drive traffic to gossip blogs and stoke non-existent conflict between Oladapo Daniel (D’Banj) and his well-regarded colleagues in the industry.
“For the records, D’banj authored no statement against his friend and brother Seun Kuti, and he is as perplexed as the general public by the publication falsely attributed to him.
“Dbanj’s view is that in the entertainment industry, they are all one big family and that though political ideologies may differ and could be expressed in heated ways, he holds that the irrefutable truth is that elections will come and go and they all will and must remain one big family.”
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