So it was all a publicity stunt after all. While we were all worried and
praying against rumours of infighting and break up in the P Square
camp, some other people were laughing at the gullibility of Nigerians.
Speaking in this chat with Icon Weekly magazine, P-Square’s
Publicist, Bayo Adetu opens up on what really transpired..
Read excerpts from the interview below...
Greetings, Bayo, we heard that the Okoye brotherS have finally
reconciled, can you give us an insight on what really happened?
After a long laugh… My brother, I’m telling you this as a friend,
there was no fight at all. The whole thing started after Jude
tweeted some days back and bloggers feasted on it and gave it
several interpretations which never existed, and that was how we
got here.
Are you saying there wasn’t a fight at all, how then did Peter and Paul
keep releasing comments through their Facebook accounts?
My guy, I can authoritatively tell you that neither of the P-Square
brothers, nor even Jude operate their Facebook accounts
anymore. Whatever Facebook posted was from an impersonator,
pretending to be anyone of them. P-Sqaure is active on twitter,
not on facebook, so you see, the whole thing was founded on
lies.
If what you are saying is true, why did they all tweet a reconciliatory
tweet this morning indicating that they have mended fences?
There’s one thing you should know, P-Square are not politicians,
neither are they businessmen to be worried about what one
useless blogger or the other has to say about them.
In this game, bad publicity is good publicity. When we read those
funny posts, we decided to play along with the general public and
what they were meant to believe.
Yesterday, (Thursday, April 24, 2014) was Jude Okoye’s birthday
and he also used the opportunity to propose to his girlfriend
while we laughed at the stupidity of some Nigerian bloggers.
We later decided to further play into their hands by reaching a
consensus to tweet what they have termed the ‘reconciliation
tweet’.
However as a journalist, I am pained that trained journalists
allow themselves to be remoted by Linda Ikeji, a mere blogger
without any professional training to stall them from investigating
serious news material like this. These days, immediately Linda
posts anything on her blog, journalists just go there and copy
and paste the story without any checks and balances, it is
outrightly wrong, I’m really upset about this.
She called me after posting the story and I just decided to ignore
her calls, because I didn’t think we had anything more to say
when the milk has been spilt.
I have taken my time to explain to you this way because, you are
a friend and did not join the bandwagon.
As for those bloggers out there, I allowed them to write whatever
they like; after all, they are consuming their Internet data, not
mine.
