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How I Terminated Obasanjo’s Investment Trip In Europe—Eedris Abdulkareem

<h4>How I Terminated Obasanjo&&num;8217&semi;s Investment Trip In Europe&&num;8212&semi;Eedris Abdulkareem<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife<&sol;a><&sol;strong> Nigeria reports that Nigerian music veteran Eedris Abdulkareem has shared a detailed account of his encounter with former President Olusegun Obasanjo&comma; tracing it back to the controversy surrounding his song &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Nigeria Jagajaga&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to the rapper&comma; the situation first came to his attention in an unexpected way&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I was sleeping one day and I received a call from someone saying&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;Put on your TV&comma; Obasanjo is talking about you&period;’ I was like&comma; really&quest; What did I do&quest;” he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Out of curiosity&comma; he turned on the television and was met with strong criticism from the country’s leader&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I was hearing Obasanjo say that he loves songs like &OpenCurlyQuote;If you push me I will push you&comma;’ he loves songs like &OpenCurlyQuote;He go better&comma;’ but there is one stupid boy that sang &OpenCurlyQuote;Nigeria Jagajaga&comma;’ it’s his father and his mother that are Jagajaga&comma;” Eedris recounted&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Rather than feeling discouraged&comma; he saw the moment differently&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I was so happy that my message got to the President&comma;” he added&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Months later&comma; their paths crossed in Europe under very different circumstances&period; Obasanjo had traveled with state governors to engage potential foreign investors&comma; while Eedris received an invitation from a German diplomat to perform at an event the President was expected to attend&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;My friend&comma; a German ambassador&comma; reached out to me and said&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;Eedris&comma; I want you to come and perform at one of the events where your President is coming&period;’ I said&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;Great&comma;’ and entered Europe too&comma;” he explained&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The atmosphere at the event took a surprising turn during his performance slot&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It was my time to perform&period; The MC announced that a talented musician&comma; Eedris Abdulkareem&comma; will be coming on stage&period; Before I got to the stage&comma; the DJ had started playing my song &OpenCurlyQuote;Jagajaga&comma;’” he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At first&comma; there was no sign of tension&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;At that moment&comma; OBJ didn’t even know it was &OpenCurlyQuote;Jagajaga&period;’ He had started shaking his body and dancing to it&comma;” Eedris noted&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The situation changed almost instantly once recognition set in&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Few minutes later&comma; it dawned on him that the song being played was the same &OpenCurlyQuote;Nigeria Jagajaga’ song he had once rebuked&period; He said&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;Eeeeh&comma;’ got upset immediately and travelled back to Nigeria without finishing his foreign investors assignment&comma;” he added&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For Eedris&comma; the episode remains a striking reminder of how music can travel beyond borders and provoke reactions in the most unexpected settings&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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