{"id":370538,"date":"2021-07-05T08:22:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T07:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=370538"},"modified":"2021-07-05T08:22:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T07:22:36","slug":"obasanjo-part-of-nigerias-problem-eedris-abdulkareem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=370538","title":{"rendered":"Obasanjo part of Nigeria’s problem – Eedris Abdulkareem"},"content":{"rendered":"
Nigerian musician, Eedris Abdulkareem has taken a swipe at former President, Olusegun Obasanjo.
\nIn an interview with DAILY POST, Eedris said the retired General was part of the problem of the country.
\nThe controversial rapper stated that Obasanjo had in prison promised to transform Nigeria but failed to keep to his promise when he became President.
\nSpeaking on his relationship with Obasanjo, the former band member of the Remedies said, \u201cObasanjo will never be my friend, I worked with him because there was this tsunami in America and we were part of the fundraising program sponsored to raise money for Nigerians out there.
\n\u201dObasanjo is part of the problem of this country. When he was in prison, he promised to do a lot of things if he became the President, but he never did. It is really sad, but we can never be friends because he\u2019s part of the problem of this country.
\n\u201dOur leaders, before getting into office might have the intention to do good things but when they get to power, they change. I don\u2019t know if it is a curse. But Yaradua did work but his term was cut short, sadly. \u201d
\nWhen asked if he thinks the youths can change the country by participating in the 2023 election? Eedris claimed that Nigerian youths are not ready for politics because they are busy watching Big Brother Naija and playing \u2018kalukalu\u2019.
\n\u201dThey should get their PVC even though their votes would not count.\u201d
\nThe \u2018Jaga Jaga\u2019 crooner also accused Nigerian entertainers of focusing on irrelevant things and not using their music to enlighten the public.
\n\u201dThe young entertainers are busy singing about booty, drugs and alcohol when they are supposed to use their music to bring and enlighten people. I\u2019m sure if the young guys in music are agitating like we are, things would have changed.\u201d
\nEedris disclosed that he is about to drop an album and another version of Jajaga song titled, \u2018Jagajaga O ti Get e\u2019<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nigerian musician, Eedris Abdulkareem has taken a swipe at former President, Olusegun Obasanjo. In an interview with DAILY POST, Eedris said the retired General was part of the problem of the country. The controversial rapper stated that Obasanjo had in prison promised to transform Nigeria but failed to keep to his promise when he became […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":370539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2678,3],"tags":[2658,14358,519],"class_list":["post-370538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news","tag-a","tag-eedris-abdulkareem","tag-olusegun-obasanjo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=370538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/370539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}