By Ayo Alonge
Against the backdrop of the proposed anti-government protest to be led by musical acts Innocent Idibia, tomorrow, the ruling party, All Progressives Congress, through its youth forum, has blasted the maestro, calling him a hypocrite who lacks the moral right to stage such protest.
In a press statement released yesterday and signed by the National Secretary of the APC Youths Renaissance, Collins Edwin, the group said that “2face lacks the locus standi to stage such protest, due to some reprehensible scandals credited to his marital and career pedigree.”
“Our attention has been drawn to efforts by a hypocritical character, called 2face Idibia to lead a national protest against the APC government led by President Muhammadu Buhari. Ordinarily, we would have maintained our silence like any other socio-political organisations in the country, but because we have better information that the so-called ‘Tuface-Protest’ is a self-serving protest with Satanic agenda other than national interest as he has made some gullible Nigerians to believe.
“We are therefore compelled to expose the hypocritical nature of 2face Idibia, a man who has never sacrificed anything for Nigeria and the nation’s entertainment industry which he has destroyed. Tuface Idibia has been in the entertainment industry since 1997 making all the money and fame without bothering to help the younger ones to rise to fortunes. Tuface Idibia was of the Plantation Boys formed and financed by Black Face, but when luck smiled on him, 2face Idibia betrayed both Black Face and Faze, the two remaining groups that were members of the Plantation Boys.
“Even at the trying times of Black Face to the extent that he could not pay his rent in Lagos, 2face Idibia with all his wealth never cared and refused to help his first benefactor.
Tuface has never raised his voice against unhealthy and immoral practices in the entertainment industry which is his immediate environment, instead, he kept quiet and benefited from it without minding it’s moral and economic burden.
Tuface as the image carrier of sexual immorality and greed has inflicted psychological and moral pains on many homes in Nigeria without anybody protesting against him,” the statement read.
Challenging him to a debate, the group added: “If the so-called protest against Buhari’s government is the idea of Tuface Idibia, we challenge him to a live debate on national TV to tell Nigerians the area of our party’s policy he is not comfortable with. We, therefore, call on all Nigerians especially the youth not to participate in the so-called national protest.”