It Says A Lot That Jaga Jaga Is Still A Relevant Song 24 Years Later – Eedris Abdulkareem

Popular singer, Eedris Abdulkareem has come out to say that his controversial new song “Tell Your Papa” is not a personal attack on Seyi Tinubu. He recently revealed that it was a direct response to the Seyi’s public praise of his father, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, the track was meant to call on Seyi Tinubu to urge his father to address Nigeria’s worsening economic and security crisis, and he would not have recorded it if Seyi did not wax lyrical about his incompetent father.

Eedris added that it says a lot that Jaga Jaga is still a relevant song in Nigeria 24 years later.

His words, “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.

I was inspired by Seyi Tinubu to record the song. I saw a video where he was campaigning for his father and he was defending his father, saying ‘My father is the best president, my father is the greatest president, they are coming for my father…’ He (Seyi) repeated it like six times. But for Seyi, I differ because it looks more perfect when you are silent than when you speak. I would advise Seyi to hand over the microphone to the MC next time. He lacks the charisma and purpose to express himself, telling the truth about the true economic situation in Nigeria under his father’s government.

He (Tinubu) has empowered Seyi as his son but Nigerian youths don’t have jobs talkless of food to eat. The Nigerian youths can’t travel by road so I ask Seyi Tinubu to travel by road without his security. Let him feel the pains of ordinary citizens. Tinubu is the best father to Seyi, but he is the worst president of Nigeria. Nigerian youths don’t have jobs and are talkless of food to eat. Let Seyi travel by road without security — let him feel what Nigerians are going through.

Twenty-four years later, Jaga Jaga is still relevant. That says a lot.”

WOW.