{"id":740710,"date":"2022-01-08T15:29:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T15:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/shatta-wale-is-entitled-to-his-opinion-about-nigerians\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T15:29:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T15:29:52","slug":"shatta-wale-is-entitled-to-his-opinion-about-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/shatta-wale-is-entitled-to-his-opinion-about-nigerians\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatta Wale is entitled to his opinion about Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/25256698.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ghanaian dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale and Nollywood actor, James Ikechukwu Esomugha and\" title=\"Ghanaian dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale and Nollywood actor, James Ikechukwu Esomugha and\" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Ghanaian dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale and Nollywood actor, James Ikechukwu Esomugha and<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\">Nollywood actor, James Ikechukwu Esomugha, popularly known as Jim Iyke, has disclosed that Ghanaian dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale is entitled to his own opinion about Nigerians in the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview with Giovani on TV3\u2019s  360, Jim Ikye said he does not have a problem with Shatta Wale\u2019s opinions as long as they do not interfere with the relationship they have built over the years as friends. He said aside from Shatta Wale being a personal friend, the artiste also supports him in everything he does.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShatta actually supports everything I do, so I don\u2019t know, I mean the man is entitled to his opinion as long as it doesn\u2019t rob of my personal relationship with him\u201d, he said.  <\/p>\n<p>Jim Iyke\u2019s comments were in reaction to Shatta Wale\u2019s recent outburst that Nigerian musicians do not reciprocate the support Ghanaian musicians give them. These comments caused a huge stir on the internet and led to a \u2018beef\u2019 between Shatta Wale and Grammy Award winner, Burna Boy.<\/p>\n<p>For Jim Iyke, it does not lie with him to make pronouncements on what Shatta Wale said.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not in my place to determine what people say or how they react with, maybe his intention wasn\u2019t bad when he said it, it\u2019s people\u2019s reaction that determines, people react to things in a different way, you could say something bad and I would see a major good in it, I will just chalk it down, it could be your opinion and you are entitled to it,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that I disagree with someone\u2019s opinion does not mean I should dislike his personality,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale and Nollywood actor, James Ikechukwu Esomugha and Nollywood actor, James Ikechukwu Esomugha, popularly known as Jim Iyke, has disclosed that Ghanaian dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale is entitled to his own opinion about Nigerians in the entertainment industry. During an interview with Giovani on TV3\u2019s 360, Jim Ikye said he does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}