Brymo advised Obi, the LP presidential candidate in the 2023 election to first aspire as the Vice President before attempting to become the President
By Kehinde Okeowo
Nigerian singer, songwriter, actor and author, Olawale Ibrahim Ashimi better known as Brymo, has been chastised on microblogging platform, Twitter for his comment on the quest for Igbo presidency.
Brymo took to his Twitter page on Thursday, January 5, saying it is advisable for Peter Obi, the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate in the 2023 election to first aspire as a Vice President.
The singer, who had endorsed Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), further justified his position saying the Igbo presidency will remain a pipe dream as long as there are talks about Biafra in the South East.
He wrote: “Well.. no other tribe seems to have a new country yet… as long as their talks by prominent people from Igboland about Biafra an Igbo presidency will be a pipe dream.
“Don’t respect my intelligence nor choices, you are trying to not accept resolve, argue more then… pls …. It is not prudent to elect him yet.
“He may have to vividly organise his home-front to lead rest of us, an Igbo VP first maybe to test the waters with the region is safer.”
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Reacting to his statement, a lot of Twitter users took to the comment section of the singer’s post to take exception to what a lot of them consider an offensive remark.
A tweep, @HeisBriggs said “Brymo is a fake musician. He doesn’t practice what he preaches with his songs. He pretends to be woke and sings about slavery, but he’s the slave himself. He writes like an intelligent man but speaks like a layman. He is just fake, y’all ignore him.”
Another netizen @Ifyblaze22 said: “I’m not surprised with your tweet about the Igbos. Afterall, you’re the one that wore a G-string to promote your song the other time… 😂 Just smoke your weed in peace, my guy.”
@RayoKasali added, ” If a tribe of 40M+ who produced our first president 60 years ago and the first indigenous head of the military still has to be tested with a VP slot (that they had like 44 years ago,) then what does that say about smaller ethnicities?.
“What does that say about us as a people?.”
While @Ayaya_is_Ayaya said: “You support Tinubu despite all the revelations about his personality, you are evil and probably a criminal like him. I have absolutely no respect for you. I love how the 2023 elections have exposed a lot of you.”
