Saturday, February 5, 2011
THE FAILED PMAN PRESIDENCY COUP - A
CASE OF COLLECTIVE STUPIDITY

“Preach the need for change but never
reform too much at once”
- ROBERT GREENE, 48 laws of power

These are interesting times we live in, not
much attention would have been paid to
PMAN ’s annual delegates’ conference that
was held in Oshogbo, Osun state on the
26th of January, 2011, if not for the
ignominious attempt made by our very
own revered hip hop artists to hijack the
party ’s leadership.
Before I start castigating the perpetrators
which include Eldee, Banky W, MI, KSB, Mr
Kool & Sound Sultan, it is fair to note that
most Nigerian artists are not pleased with
the way the organization is run.
From news making the rounds, it is safe to
say that they were acting out a script
written by Chief Tony Okoroji. This group of
artists went to Oshogbo, where they met
with Admiral Dele Abiodun and attempted to
impose a new leadership to be headed by
Eldee on PMAN, needless to say, it was an
exercise in futility. There is nothing wrong
in wanting a change, what is wrong is the
way they went about it. What did they think
was going to happen? They will just get
there and Admiral Dele Abiodun will step
aside to be replaced by the more effective
General Eldee? It is either these guys have
spent too much time watching Nollywood
movies or they just decided to be
collectively stupid. I am placing all my bets
on the latter.
Looking at the cast of this B rated
Nollywood film, we have super heroes like
Mr Capable, Mr Incredible (who is taking all
scripts after the success of his block buster
MI2), and we also have the naija ninja.
These are all exceptional actors whose
involvement is not too surprising; it is
Eldee ’s that is shocking. This is a man who
produces, raps/sings, and directs videos.

what does he want with PMAN presidency?
I just lost all the respect I had for him, in fact
he should write a book and call it “how to
destroy all you have worked for”.

What if
Admiral Dele Abiodun had not been
diplomatic about the whole thing, would
they have beaten him to a pulp and
snatched the presidency from him like it
was a phone or wrist watch. There is truly
no limit to stupidity as your actions have
shown. You people really need to dedicate
more time to reading because it is
becoming difficult to believe that some of
you are educated.

Assuming PMAN was a nation; you people
would be facing life sentences or getting
death penalties now because what you did
is akin to treason.

You tried pitting the
younger generation against the older
generation. Who made you spokesmen for
the hip hop generation (ITFU – I tire for
una)? In fact you people should be banned
from holding any elective position in PMAN
for a considerable length of time.

I think
you people were blinded by greed, this is
just pure conjecture but I think the reason
for all the sudden interest in PMAN has to do
with President Jonathan’s $200 million loan
to the entertainment industry. You guys
were thinking of ways to assess that fund
knowing fully well that whatever is meant
for the music industry will be funneled
through PMAN.

When Charlie boy was running the show,
y ’all couldn’t try this; area fada would have
knocked the stuffing out of you. If you
people were truly interested in effecting a
change, all you had to do was wait, those
running it now cannot live forever. What
you need to do now instead of licking your
wounds is to become card carrying
members and pay all your membership
dues before anything else. This is not a
guarantee that you will be taken serious as
you have already humiliated yourselves by
putting the cart before the horse.
I am really disappointed in all of you except
for sound Sultan who gets a pass, because
he always wants to right all wrongs.

Banky
W in his own case always thinks he is better
than everyone else, I hate to be the one to
break it to Mr. Capable, but he isn ’t as
important as he thinks he is. There is no
way he will be on a list of top 10
performing musicians in Nigeria, he doesn’t
get mad love like Pasuma and Osupa
Saheed, he can ’t sell records like Aiyefele, he
can’t sell out tours like Femi Kuti or Lagbaja,
he is not as talented as Tuface or Sunny
Neji, he lacks the consistency of Timaya & P
Square and he doesn ’t have mass appeal
like KWAM 1 & Adewale Ayuba, so who the
hell is he anyway? If it comes down to
PMAN being run by the younger generation,
he will have to stand in line behind people
like Yinka Davies, Weird MC, Eedris
Abdulkareem, Azu Ekiye, Sammie Okposo,
Paul Play, Zakky Adze, OJB and a host of
others, so also will MI & Baba Dee.

On a lighter note, I heard that one of them
was asked the meaning of PMAN and he
said Plenty Musicians Association of Nigeria,so much for running PMAN. (UFMH – Una fall my hand)
www.9jahiphop..com/2011/02/failed-pman-presidency-coup-case-of.html

all of dem be disgrace

Tosin wetin u mean?

y are they all suddenly interested in PMAN after the millions of dollars that President donated?
why now? like say them plan am. . .

Dollars for president! I wonder when PMAN will ever put the artistes first and stop the bickering.

The banky w dat led d group na mumu ,I swear! hw can som1 wit B.sc be takin actions without caution lyk a tout
Who elected him as spokesman?
When did he even enter the industry sef?
Just wit the success of an album or 2 in 2 years. .he feels he runs the industry wtf?
Commot hat him no go gree. .hw him go take get sense? See as he made foool of himself


Eldee dissapointed me,thot he was a matured man. .his case is d proverbial case of ''people sending a nitwit to pickup a dead goat'' how can a veteran lyk eldee allow banky w wey enter Industry yesterday dey push am around lyk wheel barrow because of 200 million dollars . .Eldee f'kd up

MI case na to dey follow follow banky w everywhere

Sound sultan too dissapointed me,I neva expected him 2 join them in such rubbish

They were actually doing the right thing but went about it in a very silly nd undiplomatic way. .I think d way they were shoved aside wil teach them a lesson on how to collectively approach issues lyk these in a sensible way in d future

the planlessness of those boys were amazing.
the moment i heard Psquared were involved, i know say na dead on arrival.
Dem don carry there agbero style go there.
sound sultan and Eldee need to have a long hard look at themselves and try not to follow the crowd next times.
respect and integrity hard pass money.
what difference does education bring to the table?

Logheaddy baba too was there on the said day twitting attendance. Hin own case dey understandable, hin head don log already so no case.

I can't imaging Eldee becoming president over Femi Kuti, K1, Shina Peter. This is comedy. Banky W dey make me laff, which day hin enter industry? Where den carry Eedris, Tetuila, Eddie Montana and co put? Bunch of hip hop cartoons.