The Honorable Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, SAN, after being blackmail by veteran rapper, Edris Abdulkareem on his latest song ‘Jaga Jaga Reloaded’ has decided to hit back with accusations on why the rapper hit at him.
In a series of post he made on his Twitter page on Saturday, April 24, Keyamo, revealed some shocking revelation about Eedris Abdulkareem at when he was anxious to join the APC for a price of N1.3 million and also ask to be given the connection to top government officials in 2018 when a song he did in support of Buhari campaign was not accepted by him.
Behind the accusations, Keyamo, alleged that Eedris Abdulkareem just released a song, ‘Jaga Jaga reloaded’, where he waxed the following lyrics on him, “where Festus Keyamo see? He don dey chop with cabal o”. according to him, he laughed out so loud and even danced to the rhythm too. But added, there’s a small story behind this poor attempt at blackmail.
While narrating the incident that led to blackmail, Keyamo stated, “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.
“He then switched to the fact that he wanted a loan to pay for his hotel bills to the tune of N1.3 m & to cater for his ‘sick mum’. That was already running into more than N3m. However, one govt functionary called me to say he told him another story that his child was sick.
“He begged me to introduce him to Malami (AGF), Amaechi & the SGF and to paint a good ‘PR’ for him. He pledged that he was with us in the campaign with his whole ‘body and soul’. But at this point, I knew he was a desperate hustler who could embarrass me, so I ghosted him.
“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://t.co/WZbS4noVcH. 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’!
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