Popular rapper Eedris Abdulkareem has said that Olusegun Obasanjo once danced to “Jaga Jaga” despite banning it. He recently had his say during an appearance on The Honest Bunch podcast, and fans have been reacting.
Revealing that Obasanjo initially danced to the popular record at an international event, unaware of the track being played, the lyricist claimed that the former president’s mood shifted when he realised what he did.
Eedris added that the criticism he received from OBJ was not offensive because it showed that the message of his song had reached the highest level of leadership.
His words, “I was sleeping one day and received a call from someone, ‘Put on your TV, Obasanjo is talking about you.’ I was like, really, what did I do? And I heard Obasanjo say that he loves songs like ‘If you push me, I will push you’, he loves songs like ‘He go better’, but there is one stupid boy that sang ‘Nigeria Jagajaga’. It’s his father and his mother that are Jagajaga.
Three months later, my friend, the German ambassador, reached out and said I should come perform at an event where the president would be. When it was my turn, before I got on stage, the DJ started playing ‘Jagajaga’.
At that moment, Obasanjo didn’t know the song. He was dancing. A few minutes later, it dawned on him that it was ‘Nigeria Jagajaga’. He got upset immediately, stood up and travelled back to Nigeria.”
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