Habeeb Okikiola, also known as Portable, has apologized to Smooth Productions, organizers of famous Nigerian music awards, The Headies.
Portable apologized after he was called out by the organizers for threatening the lives of fellow nominees.
According to the nomination list released recently by the Headies, Portable was nominated for the Best Street-Hop Artiste and Rookie of the year awards.
However, he took to his Instagram page and made death threats to other artistes that were nominated with him.
In his Instagram video, he said: “Those are my awards, anybody else who wins I will ask for them to be killed. I will ask them to kill the person. If the organisers give my award to someone else, they will die.”
He said in Yoruba language: “No go give my award to another person, he go die o.”
Smooth Productions, however, reported the video to the police and warned Portable to withdraw his statement and apologize to his colleagues.
Part of the statement read: “The Headies condemns such actions and is vehemently opposed to the utterance of any threats or actions that contravene our laws. We have notified the Nigerian Police Force of Okikiola’s actions to fellow nominees of the awards.
“Also, demand that the immediate retraction of the video from Mr Okikiola’s social media platforms, as well as a written apology to the nominees of both categories and to the Headies, must be made.
“Should Mr Okikiola fail to meet our demands, we would not only disqualify him from participating in the Headies but also enforce the instrumentalities of the law to the fullest.”
Portable deleted the controversial video from his Instagram page and apologized to the organizers via a new video posted on his page.
He said he was not in a war with anyone and was only calling for fairness.
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