Onanuga accused the singer of inciting Nigerian youths and described his post as “highly irresponsible”
By Kehinde Okeowo
Bayo Onanuga, veteran journalist and Media Director of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, has chastised popular singer and activist, Charles Oputa, aka Charly Boy over a recent social media post.
The veteran singer, while sharing a video of rioters burning down some burnings in France on Twitter, urged Nigerian youths to take a cue from the riots and “fight the system letting them down”.
Taking to his social media page on Saturday, Charly Boy wrote: “This isn’t Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan. This is France where 9% of the population has brought down entire cities!
“Am waiting on the exceptional Nigerian Youths to reject a system that let dem down.
“Karma from Africa? Una destiny dey una hand.”
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Reacting to the singer’s tweet on the mass protests in France, Onanuga
via his Twitter page accused Charly Boy of inciting Nigerian youths and described his post as “highly irresponsible”.
The senior journalist also urged the security operatives in the country to call the 73-year-old singer to order.
Onanuga wrote: “Highly irresponsible for a 73-year-old man Charly Boy asking ‘exceptional Nigerian youths’ to burn down the ‘criminal enterprise’, which he called Nigeria. The security agencies should call this old man to order immediately,” he wrote.
However, responding to the allegation, Charly Boy took to social media once again to shed more light on his earlier post, saying he did not incite the youths as assumed.
“I no ask anybody to go burn anywhere. As it concerns France, I feel is their Kama hunting them. I only charged the exceptional Nigerian youths to take their destiny in their hands. If the judiciary fails to dispense justice, the last hope of the common man should be the common man,” he countered.
The killing of Naël, a 17-year-old boy by a police officer during a traffic stop in Nanterre, a French town, on Tuesday, June 27, sparked protests in France.
The riot eventually resulted in a ban on demonstrations in some cities and travel warnings.