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Daily Post Nigeria Tell your papa: I didn’t attack Seyi Tinubu with my song, only replied him – Eedris Abdulkareem Home News Politics Metro Entertainment Sport Entertainment Tell your papa: I didn’t attack Seyi Tinubu with my song, only replied him – Eedris Abdulkareem Published on April 14, 2025 By Matthew Atungwu Nigerian singer and rapper, Eedris Abdulkareem has said that he didn’t attack Seyi Tinubu with his new song, ‘Tell your papa”. He said he only replied to a statement made by the president’s son that his father, Bola Tinubu, is Nigeria’s best-ever president. Abdulkareem stated this on ‘Rubbin’ Minds’, a programme on Channels Television on Sunday.
DAILY POST reports that the younger Tinubu made the statement in Yola, the Adamawa State capital, in March 2025. According to the rapper, his new song ‘Tell Your Papa’ was not an attack on Seyi but a call for the president’s son to tell his father to address Nigeria’s economic and security challenges. “Nigerian youths are just asking for basics: electricity, security, enabling economic environment, job creation and not palliatives.
“So, why should I attack Seyi Tinubu personally? If Seyi Tinubu never talked about it, I wouldn’t have recorded a song like that. So, I am replying to the video that he made. If he had kept quiet, I wouldn’t have said anything.
I am inspired by Seyi Tinubu to record that song,” he said. Recall that the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, immediately tagged Abdulkareem’s new song as inappropriate and banned it on radio and television. Many Nigerians, including Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, have criticised the ban.
Soyinka described the development as a return of censorship and a threat to the right to free speech. Eedris Abdulkareem, during the television programme, lamented that 24 years after he released a previous song, ‘Nigeria jagajaga’, the song is still relevant because Nigeria has not experienced the necessary development. Related Topics: Eedris Abdulkareem Seyi Tinubu Don't Miss Police detain popular singer, ‘portable’ for alleged criminal defamation You may like ‘Tell Your Papa’: Amnesty International blasts Nigerian Govt over ban of Eedris Abdulkareem’s song Reverse ban on Eedris Abdulkareem’s song in 48 hours or face court action – SERAP to FG MRA condemns NBC ban on Eedris Abdulkareem’s song I’ll sponsor video shoot of Eedris Abdulkareem’s song banned by NBC – VeryDarkMan ‘Truth is big crime in Nigeria’ – Eedris Abdulkareem fumes as NBC bans his song NBC bans Eedris Abdulkareem’s anti-Tinubu song Advertise About Us Contact Us Privacy-Policy Terms Copyright © Daily Post Media Ltd.
