The All Progressives Congress(APC) youth renaissance group
has fired a stinker at Peter Okoye of P-square for insulting the Federal
government of Nigeria.
In a statement signed by the group’s national secretary, Mr
Collins Edwin and made available to PoliticsNGR, the APC described Okoye as a
‘son of darkness’.
The statement read in full;
We read the scurrilous remarks credited to Mr Peter Okoye of
the Psquare group against the Federal Government’s job-saving policy in the
entertainment industry with great anger and vexation.
Least of all persons to make scathing remark against the
government is the Psquare group which the local content policy of the Federal
Government dusted-up from the valley of obscurity.
Where was Peter Okoye or Psquare brand in 1999 when foreign
music dominated our airwaves? If not for the government policy which mandated
all broadcast stations in Nigeria to pay attention to Nigerian music by playing
95 percent of Nigerian songs every day, would Peter Okoye or Psquare be known
to anybody in Nigeria today? Or would they have competed with better American music
which dominated our airwaves then?
After the government have used its policy to brush them up
from nothing to something; instead of giving opportunity to other people, they
are taking Nigerian jobs to foreign countries through the shooting of music videos
abroad.
Now that government have intervened to raise great and better
entertainers again, Peter Okoye has the gut to insult the entire Federal
Government by calling our great leaders ‘Ndi Ala’ which means mad and stupid
people. How dare you say that Psquare?
We, therefore, urge the security agencies in the country to
arrest Mr Peter Okoye for disrespecting our government and bringing it to a
disrepute. If you cannot produce in Nigeria and hire Nigerians, then leave the
industry.We must export Nigerian culture to the outside world through our music
and videos.
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