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Breaking: Davido replies Former NFF President, Amaju Pinnick over failure to perform at warri show
Newslens NG reports that Popular Afrobeat superstar David Adeleke Popularly known as Davido has replied former NFF president, Amaju Pinnick after he was accused of collecting $94,600 and not performing at warri show
Pinnick had accused Davido of refusing to show up at the 19th edition of the Warri Again event despite being paid an excess of $94,600 (about 72 million naira).
Pinnick said:
We paid Davido $94,600 on the 6th of April. We paid $18,000 for his plane. If he say he be big boy, we go tell am say we Big pass am.
I’m not joking. So, why he was playing his games back and forth, we decided to hunt to find another artiste, Shallipopi.
You see when people say dem big, I just dey laugh. The biggest artiste in Nigeria today, no be Burna Boy? Burna Boy is half Itsekiri. Burna Boy’s paternal grandmother is Itsekiri. So, he big pass am.
Anybody fit big pass RMD for acting industry? Anybody fit big pass Ali Baba for comedy? Warri na back to back we get dem. Nobody fit big pass Warri.
In a swift reaction on X (Twitter) on Saturday, Davido said:
Throwing stones but u Dey live for glass house …
“NOBODY CAN STOP ME FROM PERFORMING-ANYWHERE IN NIGERIA … WARRI I WILL SEE YOU SOON . ❤️