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A petition has been launched against Nigerian singer, Olawale Ashimi, popularly known as Brymo, over his comments about Igbos on his Twitter page.<\/p>\n
The singer had been under fire for stating that an Igbo presidency would only be a \u201cpipe dream\u201d due to the agitation for Biafra.<\/p>\n
Following criticisms from fellow celebrities and fans, Brymo maintained his stand, adding that he was not sorry over his comments which were tagged \u201canti-Igbo\u201d.<\/p>\n
In November 2022, the All Africa Music Award nominated Brymo in the \u2018Song Writer of the Year\u2019 category alongside singers from other African countries.<\/p>\n
As voting for the category is ongoing, some Nigerians has signed a petition to stop the singer from winning the award.<\/p>\n
Citing his \u201chateful messages\u201d against the Igbos, the petition noted that not winning the award would send a strong message to the singer.<\/p>\n
The petition, initiated by one Charles Ogundele read, \u201cBrymo recently put up a series of hateful messages on Twitter toward the Igbo tribe of Nigeria, going as far as retweeting a tweet which said that all Igbos are senseless.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn one of his tweets, he wrote \u2018f*ck omo Igbo\u2019, which translates to \u2018f*ck the Igbo people.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cHis actions are ones which spark disunity and hatred in a multicultural nation that Nigeria is.<\/p>\n
\u201cPreventing him from winning the All Africa Music Award would send a strong message to him, and people like him, that he can\u2019t get away with such blatant ethnic bigotry.\u201d<\/p>\n
So far, the petition had over 3000 signatures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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