The last few weeks, the media has been flooded with news of Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy and the Mumu Don Do Movement, tearing apart over an alleged sum of nine-figure, which was said to have been paid to the maverick entertainer by the spokesperson for President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election campaign, Festus keyamo (SAN).
Charly Boy had earlier admitted to have been paid to release a song condemning the presidential ambition of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar and asking Nigerians to reject him, but Keyamo wasted no time to deny the allegation saying anyone, who concluded that he paid Charly Boy to drag Atiku’s ambition through the mud, should have his or her head examined.
Charly Boy, who later refuted his earlier confession that he collected money from Keyamo following a backlash from fans and members of the Mumu Movement, who felt they had been left out in the sharing of the largesse, said he released such video, one each against both the APC and PDP presidential candidates at the eve of the election, but was not paid by anyone.
The U-turn made by the Area Fada in less than 72 hours has once again put the 68-year-old grandfather in the media for the wrong reasons with many people asking him to quit the stage and retire to his Oguta home in Imo State for a well-deserved rest.
But the Area Fada stated in a statement credited to him that he’s not the type that could be cowed by public opinion as he insisted that he remained non-partisan, and was neither in support of any political party, as his yearnings was for the not-too-young-to–run mantra to strive.
For somebody who believes that no price is too much to pay to actualise a great vision, Area Fada is determined to keep channeling his energy towards the greater cause as he’s said to be making fresh plans to rebrand the movement and unveil another brand anytime from now.
When R reached out to Charly Boy on his next plan with the Our Mumu Don Do movement, he declined comment and asked the reporter to watch the interview he granted to address the matter as all questions had been answered in the interview.
When pressed further, he said he’s not a poor activist, who would rely on crumbs from political parties before he could feed. “No activist should be poor if you truly want to be an activist in the real sense of it, “ he said.
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