Eedris Abdulkareem lamented that 24 years after releasing ‘Nigeria jagajaga’, the country is yet to experience the necessary development
By Kehinde Okeowo
Nigerian rapper, Eedris Turayo Abdulkareem Ajenifuja, popularly known as Eedris Abdulkareem has claimed his latest song, ‘Tell Your Papa’ wasn’t an attack on the president’s son, Seyi Tinubu.
He made the clarification on Sunday while featuring on Channels Television programme, ‘Rubbin’ Minds’
According to the singer, he was only responding to a statement the president’s son made in Yola, the Adamawa State capital, in March 2025.
Seyi had during the visit to the North-Eastern state asserted that his father, Bola Tinubu, is Nigeria’s best-ever president.
Speaking during the interview, Eedris Abdulkareem insisted that his new song was a call on Seyi to tell his father to address Nigeria’s economic and security challenges.
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He said, “Nigerian youths are just asking for basics: electricity, security, enabling economic environment, job creation and not palliatives.
“So, why should I attack Seyi Tinubu personally? If Seyi Tinubu never talked about it, I wouldn’t have recorded a song like that. So, I am replying to the video that he made. If he had kept quiet, I wouldn’t have said anything. I am inspired by Seyi Tinubu to record that song.”
He went on to lament that 24 years after he released a previous song, ‘Nigeria jagajaga’, the song is still relevant because the country is yet to experience the necessary development.
Recall that the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) recently tagged Abdulkareem’s new song as inappropriate and banned it on radio and television.
Many Nigerians, including Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, have since criticised the ban.
Soyinka described the development as a return of censorship and a threat to the right to free speech.
