the fight between the brothers was all a publicity stunt, and that
they all decided to play along. Well, after the backlash from fans,
Mr Adetu has backtracked and claims he never made those
comments. A statement he released below.
My attention has been drawn to one magazine interview
quoting me that the purported P-Square break-up tale was a
‘publicity stunt.’ It was indeed a misconception on the part
of the writer. I never said the rumour was a ‘publicity stunt.’
There is no way I could have granted an official interview
and speak in such denigrating manner as being portrayed by
the magazine in question.
I can remember talking to Star FM and NTA2, and it is on
record that I never spoke in such unprofessional manner!
Most importantly, I never said it was a ‘publicity stunt’
because that amounts to toying with the emotions of P-
Square fans. I cherish the fans more than Diamond and
therefore, I will never disrespect or toy with their emotions.
Thanks for your understanding.
Read the interview he supposedly granted to Icon magazine after
the cut...
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 split.
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
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