Nigerian rapper, Eedris Abdulkareem says his viral song "Tell You Papa" was not an attack on Seyi Tinubu, son of President Bola Tinubu.

According to the singer, the song was in response to Seyi who had declared in Yola, Adamawa state that his father is Nigeria’s best-ever president.

Abdulkareem made the comment in a recent interview on ‘Rubbin’ Minds’, a programme on Channels Television on Sunday.

Abdulkareem said his new song was not attacking Seyi but calling him to tell his father to address Nigeria’s economic and security challenges.

“Nigerian youths are just asking for basics: electricity, security, enabling economic environment, job creation and not palliatives.

“So, why should I attack Seyi Tinubu personally? If Seyi Tinubu never talked about it, I wouldn’t have recorded a song like that. So, I am replying to the video that he made. If he had kept quiet, I wouldn’t have said anything. I am inspired by Seyi Tinubu to record that song,” he said.

Meanwhile, the ban on the song by the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC has been heavily criticized by Nigerians including Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka.

Soyinka described the development as a return of censorship and a threat to the right to free speech.

Eedris Abdulkareem, during the television program, lamented that 24 years after he released a previous song, ‘Nigeria jagajaga’, the song is still relevant because Nigeria has not experienced the necessary development.

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