CHARLY BOY AGREES TO HAVE RECEIVED ‘NINE FIGURES’ FROM KEYAMO

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Ife Adewole

The co-convener of ‘OurMumuDonDo’ socio-political movement, Charles Oputa has agreed that he received millions of naira from a spokesman for President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign team, Festus Keyamo.

Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy in an interview with Roots TV said Keyamo paid him money in “nine figures” in the run-up to the country’s presidential election in February.

Charly Boy, claimed that the money was a payment for the right to use a song he recently composed.

He said: “When Keyamo came to discuss Deji’s matter, he heard my new song that I was working on…where I was dissing Atiku.”

“I don’t care. But if you want to use my work, you pay for it.”

“Of course, he paid for it. And they paid heavy.”

When he was asked the amount paid, Charly Boy admitted that the money was in “nine figures” without mentioning the exact amount.

The song, ‘Another Guy Man,’ was posted to YouTube on January 25. It has 6, 687 views on Charly Boy’s channel as at Friday morning.

In it, he condemns both People’s Democratic Party and All Progressives Congress, with more scornful criticisms reserved for PDP’s Atiku Abubakar while President Buhari was left out totally.

He further said in the interview that others in the #OurMumuDonDo, including the co-convener of the movement, Deji Adeyanju, who quit the group earlier this week, requested for their share of the money.

Adeyanju challenged Charly Boy of betraying the movement by receiving a bribe from Buhari Campaign team when he was in prison.

Roots TV shared the Charly Boy’s interview on Instagram within 24 hours after a tape of a conversation between him and Adeyanju was leaked. Charly Boy confessed during the conversation that he collected money from Keyamo.

Charly Boy has led numerous protests against the present government which led to clashes with the police.

While Adeyanju said he did not expose the tape, but admitted sharing it with “a few persons in confidence.”

Adeyanju, before Roots TV made the Charly Boy’s interview public, claimed he rejected offers of about $2 million made to him by the agents of the Nigerian government to quit opposing the government

“Since 2017 till date, I have been offered over $2million to compromise but I refused,” Adeyanju tweeted on Wednesday.

Adeyanju was in Kano prison from December 2018 till February 2019 over murder charges. The police accused him of killing a Kano businessman, Alhassan Ali, on January 6, 2005, in Kano.

He was, however, acquitted of the charges in 2009. The police cited the same case when he was arrested in late 2018.

Adeyanju insisted on Wednesday that the government arrested him because he refused to cut a deal with the Nigerian government.

“If I had, they wouldn’t have sent me to Kano Central Prison or tried to charge me for terrorism & other crimes.”