{"id":87044,"date":"2023-07-27T11:14:31","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T11:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/07\/27\/davido-doesnt-owe-muslims-apology-wole-soyinka\/"},"modified":"2023-07-27T11:14:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T11:14:31","slug":"davido-doesnt-owe-muslims-apology-wole-soyinka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/07\/27\/davido-doesnt-owe-muslims-apology-wole-soyinka\/","title":{"rendered":"Davido Doesn&#8217;t Owe Muslims Apology- Wole Soyinka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Davido<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian literary icon, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has urged singer, Davido not to apologise over the controversial video he posted on his social media pages.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Dailypost reported that Davido came under heavy criticism after sharing a clip of the music video of his signee, Logos Olori\u2019s new single \u2018Jaye Lo\u2019 which captured people praying and dancing in front of a mosque on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The singer eventually bowed to pressure and deleted the video but refused to apologise.<\/p>\n<p>Despite taking down the video, some Muslims are still demanding a public apology from Davido.<\/p>\n<p>A group of Muslim youth took to the streets of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital to demonstrate their displeasure with Davido; setting a large banner of the singer on fire.<\/p>\n<p>However, in a statement released on Tuesday, Soyinka maintained that Davido doesn\u2019t owe Muslims an apology.<br \/>The Nobel laureate said the former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El Rufai had made derogatory comments against Christians in the past but was never asked to apologise.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cThere was nothing to apologize about, and that applied equally to El Rufai\u2019s comments at the time. It should come as no surprise that I equally absolutely disagree with Shehu Sani if indeed, as reported, he has demanded an apology from Davido on behalf of the Muslim community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soyinka added that it wasn\u2019t Davido\u2019s music that lynched Deborah Yakubu, a second-year Christian college student who was killed by a mob of Muslim students in Sokoto last year over alleged blasphemy.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Davido \u00a0 Nigerian literary icon, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has urged singer, Davido not to apologise over the controversial video he posted on his social media pages. 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