Nigerian singer, Olawale Ashimi popularly known as Brymo has paused his music career for a moment as he takes on Nigerians of southeast extraction, the Igbos, as the political scene gets more interesting.
The 36-year-old singer has been at loggerheads on the microblogging platform, Twitter, with Igbos for the past few days as he wrote a few tweets that didn’t go down well with the ethnic group, which is Nigeria’s third largest ethnic group.
The singer proceeded to air his political views, which he was blasted for.
He retaliated by mocking them and got to the height of it all when he wrote “Fuck the Ndi Igbo” on his Twitter handle in the early hours of Sunday.
The Nigerian political landscape has been witnessing bitter exchanges between some Nigerians of different ethnic groups, especially between some Yorubas of the southwest, who doubled supporters of Bola Tinubu of APC, and some Igbos of the southeast and supporters of Peter Obi of the Labour Party.
This exchange was part of what got the singer (Yoruba by tribe and an APC supporter) involved in the political exchange online, but it has gotten to heights that can spark real tensions offline, as most of the exchanges have been done online.
Both sides of the exchange have condemned the singer’s statement and sided with it in varying measures, but the applause for the anti-Igbo post may be more as the conflicting post has not been deleted.
