During an interview with Inspiration FM's
Gloria Maduka post surgery, veteran music
producer OJB Jezreel addressed controversy
surrounding his donations, said celebs used
it as competition and calls out Dbanj.
Here's why he's unhappy with D'banj.
During his fund raiser many months back,
there were rumours that D'banj gave his
former music producer N7m, a report that
D'banj didn't deny. OJB says D'banj didn't
give him a dime and was upset that he
didn't try to set the record straight.
"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
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?" OJB says during the interview
He also talked about how people used his
fund raiser as competition and once again
addresses the bounced cheques.
"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 (Laughs).
"There were people in my dialysis that I
gave N100k each to pay for their dialysis, we
didn't publicize it, we didn't take photos
with them, because I felt that was
unnecessary."
Listen to the interview below...