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Osun Guber Poll: I Want a Child Like Davido

A bad child has his own day, or so it seems in Davido's case. No one arrests his son for being a good boy so; I can tell you the story of a crummy-crappy guy who pulled out from a US school and, took a walk from Engineering to go after a music career, or so he said to his Dad's ears few years ago. Of course, you need want to become a Doctor, a Lawyer, or an Engineer to please an African parent. Ask the Sunny Ade(s), they had to run away from home to pursue what seemed to no one else a career. They were the bad boys, the naughts.

Davido was already an undergraduate, studying one of the courses a black Dad would freely announce. He ran away from school, he ran away from the US, from the shades of his father's luxury; to sing in Nigeria and, his Dad got him arrested, for that alone. He was a bad boy and his life, to all appearances, wouldn't have been my subject if not for last Saturday's guber election in Osun. The slim edge of Davido's uncle over Oyetola could arguably be said to have been a product of this young man's fame. He was obviously the man to watch. He was the crowd puller, he did what a hundred Engineers couldn't have done.

I want a son like Davido, who will be muscular enough to pursue the career he loves, even as the last man standing, when I think differently. Instinctively, my African self might give such a child a whole lot of slaps. I might punch him hard, or hand him over to Nigerian soldiers to help me beat the influence of village witches out. I'm afraid, I might even threaten to disown him. But, like Davido, I wish he remains stubborn, single-minded and hard-as-nails. I wish he follows his heart. I wish he also becomes a subject of global reckoning and one to be proud of. If his fame ends up making me a Governor too, I just wouldn't mind.

Ayeni Faith Damilola is a writer, public speaker and eulogist.
faithdamilolaayeni@yahoo.com

The boy has grace around him

Hmmm

Oga, don't say what you don't know. Davido didn't run away from US to start his music career, incase you don't know, his father consented to his music career from onset. His father opened multimillion naira Studio for him in lekki phase 1, I was the part of the team that first put him in the limelight when he first started, in fact I designed the first magazine he feature in Nigeria, check redsheet magazine in Google.

Africlegend:
Osun Guber Poll: I Want a Child Like Davido

A bad child has his own day, or so it seems in Davido's case. No one arrests his son for being a good boy so; I can tell you the story of a crummy-crappy guy who pulled out from a US school and, took a walk from Engineering to go after a music career, or so he said to his Dad's ears few years ago. Of course, you need want to become a Doctor, a Lawyer, or an Engineer to please an African parent. Ask the Sunny Ade(s), they had to run away from home to pursue what seemed to no one else a career. They were the bad boys, the naughts.

Davido was already an undergraduate, studying one of the courses a black Dad would freely announce. He ran away from school, he ran away from the US, from the shades of his father's luxury; to sing in Nigeria and, his Dad got him arrested, for that alone. He was a bad boy and his life, to all appearances, wouldn't have been my subject if not for last Saturday's guber election in Osun. The slim edge of Davido's uncle over Oyetola could arguably be said to have been a product of this young man's fame. He was obviously the man to watch. He was the crowd puller, he did what a hundred Engineers couldn't have done.

I want a son like Davido, who will be muscular enough to pursue the career he loves, even as the last man standing, when I think differently. Instinctively, my African self might give such a child a whole lot of slaps. I might punch him hard, or hand him over to Nigerian soldiers to help me beat the influence of village witches out. I'm afraid, I might even threaten to disown him. But, like Davido, I wish he remains stubborn, single-minded and hard-as-nails. I wish he follows his heart. I wish he also becomes a subject of global reckoning and one to be proud of. If his fame ends up making me a Governor too, I just wouldn't mind.

Ayeni Faith Damilola is a writer, public speaker and eulogist.
faithdamilolaayeni@yahoo.com

pray hard make d one u go get no choose d wrong ones o!because i know there are rich arm rubbers and prostitutes.