The ruling
All Progressives Congress, APC, has ordered for the immediate arrest of
Peter Okoye of P-square, over alleged disparaging remarks against the
current administration.
The call for
the arrest, came as the brothers via their Instagram pages, questioned the
Federal Government’s purported move to ban the production of music videos
abroad.
They said
the Federal Government was trying to control what it never supported, adding
that, one day a law would surface that will monitor how they sleep with their
wives.
Reacting in
a statement signed by the APC Youths National Secretary, Collins Edwin, the
group described Peter Okoye as a “son of darkness.”
“We read the
scurrilous remarks credited to Mr Peter Okoye of the P-square 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 P-square
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 everyday, 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 has 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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