Keyamo, Eedris clash rages on over Jagajaga Reloaded

Eedris Abdulkreem would have expected his low-key hustling with the President Muhammadu Buhari government would hit the headline someday thanks to Minister of State for Labour and Employment Festus Keyamo (SAN).

But the senior lawyer would not have blown the gaff  if the faded rap star had let the sleeping dog lie.

In his remixed of the yesteryear hit Jagajaga released recently, Eedris hit the minister.

“Where Festus Keyamo sef? He don dey chop with cabal o,” Keyamo quoted parts of the lyric when he hit back with a little backstory early on Sunday.

According to him, Eedris acted like hustler and blackmailer.

“In 2018, when I was named the Director of Strategic Communications for Buhari Campaign Organisation Eedris waxed a song in support of Buhari & wanted to join us, albeit for a fee. He then made desperate efforts to see me through text messages from his phone no,” Keyamo tweeted.

“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.

“He then switched to the fact that he wanted a loan to pay for his hotel bills to the tune of N1.3 m & to cater for his ‘sick mum’. That was already running into more than N3m. However, one govt functionary called me to say he told him another story that his child was sick.

“He begged me to introduce him to Malami (AGF), Amaechi & the SGF and to paint a good ‘PR’ for him. He pledged that he was with us in the campaign with his whole ‘body and soul’. But at this point, I knew he was a desperate hustler who could embarrass me, so I ghosted him.

“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’. But we decided to ignore his weak voice of opposition.

“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.

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Despite Keyamo publishing the screengrab of the conversation tp prove his point, the rapper denied the meaty aspect of the allegation—that he wanted to make a song track for the Buhari campaign for cash and connection.

Eedris said he went to him based on their old relationship—as activists.

“When my mother was dying, I reached out to a brother, or one I thought was a brother and a comrade. Could he have helped, yes. Did he help, NO,” he tweeted.

“Such was the wickedness of his heart that he munched and kept personal details for three years… real Hallmark of a Blackmailer!

“In 2018, I still thought the man was a comrade. Thought he could effect change in the government he served. Then he joined the cabal, he became inner caucus and held the steering wheel spiralling Nigeria into doom. He joined to crush the revolution of the youths. He joined the cabal; the cabal which mowed down our youths at LEKKI TOLL GATE.

“With a vexed spirit, I went again to the studio for ‘Jagajaga Reloaded’ and the blackmailer went to town. The cabal is awoken. The cabal is hit. The cabal is in pain. The cabal is failing. The cabal will FALL.”

Twitter hs deleted Keyamo screenshopt published for contravening the platform’s policy.

Many Nigerians are even calling on Twitter to suspend Keyamo’s account.