We will look for Tinubu lookalike – VeryDarkMan vows, backs Eedris Abdulkareem against FG over protest song ban

Controversial activist VeryDarkMan has vowed to sponsor the video shoot of Eedris Abdulkareem’s new protest song, “Tell Your Papa,” after it was banned by the Nigerian government through the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC).

eelive.ng reported that Abdulkareem asked President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s son, Seyi Tinubu, to inform his father about the country’s hardship and rising mortality rates, however, it was deemed “inappropriate and offensive” by the NBC.

The ban, however, seems to have achieved the opposite effect, drawing significant attention to the song, which had previously gone largely unnoticed. VeryDarkMan criticized the federal government’s decision, arguing that the song’s message is factual and warrants discussion.

In a video message shared on his social media page, VeryDarkMan expressed his support for Abdulkareem, stating:

“I went to Eedris Abdulkareem’s page and saw the message NBC sent to him that they have banned his song, ‘Tell Your Papa’… So the government doesn’t want to hear it on the stations, and they know he is saying the truth. Isn’t there hardship in the country? Ain’t people dying from insecurity?”

“So the government doesn’t want to hear it on the stations, and they know he is saying the truth. Isn’t there hardship in the country? Ain’t people dying from insecurity?

“This is what we are going to do now. First of all, we don’t even know radio. How many people listen to radio or watch TV? That’s by the way. We are going to take it over by social media.

“Dear, Eedris Abdulkareem, we are going to shoot another video. This time, we will sponsor it. I will be in the video. We will also look for Tinubu’s lookalike since we can’t get the President to be in the video. We will remake the video, ‘Tell Your Papa 2.’ Then, we will also highlight other problems.

“That [the ban] is to say, this people listen to what is going on in Nigeria but they don’t want to act. Then when you talk, they want to control the media so that you don’t have a voice and this voice doesn’t exceed what they can control.”

VeryDarkMan has pledged to help Abdulkareem recreate the video, which will be released as “Tell Your Papa 2.”