Jagajaga Reloaded: Festus Keyamo And Eedris Abdulkareem Fight Dirty On Twitter—–The Genius Media Nigeria reports that Senior Advocate of Nigeria Festus Keyamo has exposed Eedris Abdulkareem’s alleged attempted extortion, shares text messages he received from the singer.
This reliable platform gathered that Keyamo made this known via his twitter page Narrating how the singer tried to blackmail him in 2018, Keyamo said Eedris tried to meet him after he was named the Director of Strategic Communications for Buhari Campaign Organisation.
When he finally met Eedris, the singer told him he wanted to join the Buhari’s campaign team and that he sang a song in support of President Buhari.
After meeting the singer and listening to the song, Keyamo claimed he told the artiste he had no budget for the song and that his work in the campaign team was a voluntary work.
According to him, Eedris then asked him for a N1.3million loan to pay for his mum’s medical bills and also for his hotel bills. However, after he was told by another “government functionary” that Eedris told him a different story, he refused to help.
Keyamo claimed he ghosted Eedris but was contacted again by the singer who begged him to introduce him to top governmental officials.
The Minister shared text messages as evidence to back up his claims as he accused Eedris of trying to blackmail him with his new song “jagajaga reloaded” were the singer name dropped him.
Read his Twitter thread below.
1.) Eedris Abdulkareem just released a song, ‘jagajaga reloaded’, where he waxed the following lyrics, “where Festus Keyamo sef? He don dey chop with cabal o”. I laughed out so loud and even danced to the rhythm too. But there’s a small story behind this poor attempt at blackmail
— Festus Keyamo, SAN, CON, FCIArb (UK) (@fkeyamo) April 24, 2021
https://twitter.com/fkeyamo/status/1386070334944710662
3.) 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
— Festus Keyamo, SAN, CON, FCIArb (UK) (@fkeyamo) April 24, 2021
https://twitter.com/fkeyamo/status/1386071456564531203
https://twitter.com/fkeyamo/status/1386071850120368130
6.) 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
— Festus Keyamo, SAN, CON, FCIArb (UK) (@fkeyamo) April 24, 2021
7.) 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
— Festus Keyamo, SAN, CON, FCIArb (UK) (@fkeyamo) April 24, 2021
8.) 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’!
— Festus Keyamo, SAN, CON, FCIArb (UK) (@fkeyamo) April 24, 2021
9.) I wish to assure Eedris and any who think being in Govt is tantamount to ‘chopping’, that for some of us (I can’t speak for others) it is just an honour to serve our country and an attempt to move from armchair criticism to a real participant in order to make a difference.
— Festus Keyamo, SAN, CON, FCIArb (UK) (@fkeyamo) April 24, 2021
10.) Finally, we can all sit back and enjoy the ‘jagajaga reloaded’. One of the objectives of the song is to call me out since I ghosted him for attempted extortion – he has now succeeded. Another objective is to help promote the song by my reaction – that he has also achieved!
— Festus Keyamo, SAN, CON, FCIArb (UK) (@fkeyamo) April 24, 2021
