Afrobeat musician and son of legendary Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Seun Kuti, has apologised to Bolaji Ayorinde, over a defamatory and libellous statement he made against the senior lawyer.

Seun had, in a video on social media, insinuated that Ayorinde intentionally passed information to Process and Industrial Development, P&ID, while representing Nigeria during arbitration proceedings over their disputed gas contract.

The afrobeat musician also said he was battle ready to meet Ayorinde in court over the controversy surrounding the P&ID gas processing contract case.

Following this, Seun was slammed with a libel and defamation of character lawsuit by Ayorinde before an Oyo State High Court sitting at Ibadan.

However, at the hearing of the suit on April 18, 2024, parties informed the court that they had met and adopted the terms of settlement dated 15/4/2024 and filed the same date.

They urged the court to adopt the terms of settlement as the judgment of the court.

Consequently, Justice K. Olawoyin adopted the term of settlement as the judgment of the court.

The court said: “In view of the foregoing and in accordance with the expressed desire of the parties in this suit as confirmed by the respective counsel in court, I hereby enter the foregoing terms of statement as the judgment of the court.”

In the term of statement, Seun stated unequivocally that his statements made and published on his Instagram Handle @bigbirdkuti on October 31, 2023, against Chief Ayorinde were not true and unfounded and stand retracted.

He said “It is not true that the claimant (Chief Ayorinde SAN) leaked confidential documents to the adverse side in the P & ID Vs. Nigeria arbitration matter or in any way conducted himself in any unethical or corrupt manner in his work as legal Practitioner for Nigeria in the said case.

“It is not true that the claimant deliberately planned with the opponent to lose in the P & ID Vs. Nigeria Arbitration Matter and sabotaged the interests of Nigeria in the case.

“It is not true that the claimant committed Treachery against Nigeria in the said P & ID Vs. Nigeria Arbitration Matter.

“It is not true that the claimant charged $197 million for a case in which the claimant intentionally sabotaged his country, Nigeria.”

Seun in his defence before the court, said: “Having now conceded that my allegations are untrue and unfounded and that I have unjustifiably impeached the character and reputation of Chief Ayorinde, SAN, I hereby publicly recant and retract my aforesaid untrue imputations against Chief Ayorinde, which stood to damage the hard earned good name and good will of Chief Ayorinde’s character.”

Divine Ikubor, the singer better known as Rema, has voiced his frustration about everything concerning Afrobeats in a lengthy X rant.

In a flurry of tweets, Rema alleged that music labels are “trying to clone me” — implying that some record labels are trying to model their artistes after him.

The Afrobeats star also argued that most artistes have used him as a template since he broke onto the scene in 2019.

The ‘Calm Down’ hitmaker declared that he is officially on par with the country’s biggest three artistes — Davido, Wizkid and Burna Boy.

“No more Big 3 there’s now a Big 4,” he wrote.

“Tell your stylists to stop sending mails to brands with my name to get clothes imma pull up to your show and strip u on stage cuz that’s my sh*t HOE! fake celebrities, fake industry.

“Labels get creative, stop trying to clone me. Rema made Afrobeat EP’s a Big statement. Every new Artist since 2019 ate from the same template. Uh oh.

“They wanna live fast. They take the crazy advance. The music is fueled by pressure. Then they dump it on y’all. The new age Afro cycle, I love it.”

Reacting to the assumption that he must be kicking off an album cycle with the rant, Rema wrote: “No new music. Sorry. I’m Too big for fake PR bye!”

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In a gesture of appreciation and support, a renowned record label executive, Moses Bliss, has surprised his artistes, Neeja, SON Music, and Godfrey Gad with new cars.

In a now-viral video on Saturday showing the presentation of the gifts to the mentees under his record label, Spotlite Nation, Bliss said, “A year ago, by the mercies of God, we were able to give out three cars to Ebuka songs, Doris Joseph and Clinton, and today is exactly one year later and by God’s grace, we are about to give out another three cars to encourage the music talents we have in Spotlite Nation.”

The video showed the upcoming artistes entering the house, and upon seeing the surprise, they expressed shock, joy, and gratitude while being presented with their new cars.

Bliss further hailed the artistes while presenting the gifts and prayed for them.

“Thank you, you guys have been amazing. This is just a little appreciation from us at Spotlight Nation to say thank you for the work you do for the kingdom of God,” he added.

Expressing gratitude via his Instagram handle on Saturday, one of the artistes, Neeja, wrote, “Thank you so much, sir, my boss and mentor Min. Moses Bliss, for this wonderful gift. God bless you, sir.”

Meanwhile, SON Music wrote via Instagram, “Sir Moses Bliss, may the Lord continue to honour you greatly. I feel so loved. Thank you, Spotlite Nation. Congratulations, SON MUSIC.”

Also, Godfrey Gad wrote on Instagram, “Somebody wake me. My mentor, Moses Bliss, just gifted me a car. Jesus, somebody should wake me up. Thank you, Jesus.”