Naija Wahala
According to NAIJAWAHALA, the Federal Government banned the song on Thursday via the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), which deemed it offensive and unsuitable.
In a twist of fate, the ban brought significant attention to the song, which was largely unnoticed before the ban.
VDM responded by claiming that the singer’s statements in the song were accurate and criticized the federal government for removing it from Nigerian radio and television.
He promised that he would help Abdulkareem redo the video.
“I went to Eedris Abdulkareem’s page and saw the message NBC sent to him that they have banned his song, ‘Tell Your Papa,’ wherein he asked Seyi Tinubu, son of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to tell his father that there is hardship in the country and people are dying,” VeryDarkMan stated in a video message posted on his social media page.
“So the government doesn’t want to hear it on the stations, and they know he is saying the truth. Isn’t there hardship in the country? Ain’t people dying from insecurity?
“This is what we are going to do now. First of all, we don’t even know radio. How many people listen to the radio or watch TV? That’s by the way. We are going to take it over on social media.
Dear Eedris Abdulkareem, we are going to shoot another video. This time, we will sponsor it. I will be in the video. We will also look for Tinubu’s lookalike since we can’t get the President to be in the video. We will remake the video, ‘Tell Your Papa 2.’ Then, we will also highlight other problems.
“That [the ban] is to say, these people listen to what is going on in Nigeria, but they don’t want to act. Then when you talk, they want to control the media so that you don’t have a voice and this voice doesn’t exceed what they can control.”
