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Some aggrieved Muslim youths recently took to the streets of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, to demonstrate their displeasure with famous singer, Davido who posted a video clip offensive to Islam on his Twitter page.

Davido came under heavy criticisms after sharing a clip of the music video of his signee, Logos Olori’s new single ‘Jaye Lo’

A 45-second clip of the new video posted Friday on Instagram by Davido has since got tongues wagging.

Many Muslim devotees have labelled the video offensive and are now calling for a retraction while also threatening the artistes with a lawsuit.

The controversial scene featured some men depicting praying Mallams seen dancing in front of a mosque instead of praying. This dancing act has since been deemed offensive by some Muslim devotees.

Many prominent Nigerian Muslims including former aide to ex-president Muhammadu Buhari, Bashir Ahmad, Senator Shehu Sani, actor, Ali Nuhi, asked Davido to take down the video and apologise to Muslims for “disrespecting” their religion.

After initially ignoring the criticisms, the DMW boss finally lifted the “offensive” video from his page on Sunday.

The singer eventually bowed to pressure after 48 hours and deleted the controversial video.

Reacting to the development, former President Muhammadu Buhari’s aide, Bashir Ahmad, hailed the singer for removing the video.

He wrote on Twitter, “It is good to discover that Davido deleted that offensive and hurtful video.

“Hopefully, the entire scene will also be deleted from the actual footage before releasing it to the market, and we humbly urge that the same grave mistake should never happen again from him or anyone else.

“Nigeria is a beautiful country. It is always amazing when we celebrate the beauty of living in unity and harmony while embracing our differences.”

However, Davido did not apologise for his action.

Angered by his arrogance, some Muslim youths in Maiduguri took to the street setting a large banner of the singer on fire.

In a video making the rounds on social media, the youths were captured publicly setting Davido’s picture ablaze.

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Davido should apologize let end this.
It takes nothing to say “I am sorry” pic.twitter.com/exasKW4hSV

— $ULTAN☠️𝕏 (@Sarki_sultan) July 25, 2023

After this I don't think that Davido will ever visit Maiduguri😅

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Offensive ni offence ko

spencekat:
Offensive ni offence ko

According to the youths of Maiduguri it was offensive