Veteran music producer OJB Jezreel
is very unhappy with Dbanj and the reason is not unconnected with his refusal
to donate towards his surgery in India.
While granting a post surgery
interview with Inspiration FM recently, OJB not only cleared the controversy
surrounding his donations, but further revealed that many of the celebrities
that donated used it as competition.
Expressing his disappointment, OJB
said “The most disappointing one for me is D’banj because he passed
through my hands, he was trained under my tutelage. That is offensive. I don’t
care if you’re with Kanye West, you can’t forget your root. I won’t call
anybody else’s name but I will call his because it hurts. His own hurts very
deep. And he never tried to reach out to me. It’s not like we parted on
fighting terms.”
He continued “He told me he had to
go to London and he went. And when he came back it was Don Jazzy, and I said
OK, that’s fine. And what he did worked, and I’m very proud of him, the love I
had for him, that’s why it hurts more. He should have come out to say no, I
don’t know why you people are saying all this, I didn’t give OJB N7million,
maybe a part of him felt embarrassed because at the end of the day, really, are
you not supposed to do something?”
On the number of genuine and bounced
cheques he got during the donation, OJB said “When
P-Square gave me N5million cheque, everybody started treating it as a
competition. They were like, they brought N5m, I want to show that I can do
more, or equal it. So they will come to my house, some will drop N2m, N1m, you
say thank you, they take pictures and go away. Then you drop the cheque in your
account and you see that almost N4/5million is being returned back to you that
it didn’t clear. You call them and tell them and they tell you they are coming
but they haven’t picked the cheques till now.
“The shocking ones are not even the bounced cheques.
It’s the ones that when they are coming to meet you in the house to give you
money, they come with a whole camera crew. Then they will say I’m donating one
million naira to you and the cameras start recording and maybe the guy’s tape
stops, and he says let’s take that again.” He revealed.
