Elijah Adebero
Popular saxophonist, Femi Kuti, has reacted to reports that he described the supporters of presidential candidate, Peter Obi, as zombies.
The 60-year-old on Thursday had allegedly thrown a shade on Peter Obi’s supporters and many of them seem not seeing this funny.
He had said during a performance at the Afrika Shrine:
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“You know what obedience means?
Stand up, sit down, sit there — zombie.
How can you be Obidient in this chaos?
I am not Obidient.
Tell me, at 60, why am I Obidient?
You said I should be Obidient, sit down, be peaceful.
Are you all okay in this country?” the reports claimed he said.
This was interpreted to be an insult on the Obidients, with some of them allegedly vowing to attack him.
They were also said to have threatened to burn down the Shrine.
Reacting to this, he said:
“You are such liars.
Of what benefit is it to the people when you take my words out of context like this?
I said I’m too angry at my age to be obedient.
Expressing I do not like the ‘term’ but if Peter Obi wins and actually changes the country better for all of us.”
Femi said he was never for Atiku Abubakar and Tinubu too.
According to him, he can never be for Tinubu whom, he claimed, raided his Shrine when he was the Lagos State governor.
He said, like his father, he was committed to the emancipation of the country.
