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Seun Kuti calls OBJ's supporters “oppressors”

"Whatever Obasanjo does in this country and you support it, you have shown that you are against Africa, you don’t respect Africa." - Kuti.
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Seun Kuti

AFROBEAT singer and Grammy-nominated artiste, Seun Kuti has referred to supporters of former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo as oppressors, declaring that they are against Africa.

The music artiste who has been very active on and off social media before, during, and after the presidential election did not hide his words.

In a video shared on his social media page, he described the former President as a wicked person.

He said, “They sell our oil, things that belong to us. That if anybody sells them, they’ll become billionaires. And when they were going to do these things, selling the things, especially during Obasanjo’s regime… That man is so wicked. And any Nigerian that praises Obasanjo for any reason will go to hell.

“You must go to hell because you have shown that you are beyond salvation. Whatever Obasanjo does in this country and you support it, you have shown that you are against Africa, you don’t respect Africa, that the atrocities of whatever forms that Africans have gone through have no bearing in your emotions as long as your own interests are served; you’re an oppressor.

"Anybody that can praise Obasanjo for anything is an oppressor! Is an oppressor!! You are an oppressor, nobody can tell me anything. It means you don’t respect Africans. 

"You have no regard for all the atrocities we have gone through as African people. You are there to serve your selfish interest.”

Olusegun Obasanjo, now 86 years of age was Nigeria's Head of State from 1976 to 1979, and later as its president from 1999 to 2007.