Seun Kuti creates stir, walks out on Sanwo-Olu at sister’s birthday

There was a mild drama at the 60^th birthday celebration organized for Yeni Kuti .At the event held on Monday 25^th of May 2021, Seun Kuti, son of the Afrobeat legend, expressed his displeasure with Governor Sanwoolu by raising two middle fingers and walking out on him after he showed up to felicitate with his sister.

He was later brought back to the venue by his elder brother, Femi Kuti who tried to douse the tension.

This occurrence has sparked various comments on social media.

Seun kuti walks out on sanwoolu
A king and more!
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— Daniel Valantino⚜️? (@DanielValantine) May 25, 2021

Read the comments gathered by TheNewsGuru below:

Funke:Only musician in Nigeria who keeps constant energy for these idiot leaders. For rice and beans many have sold their own siblings in Africa.

Prince_vii: When energy in action matches the words. Not the ones that cap and then go for homecoming on the request of their governor

Seundreams: FELA never left, tall and do…where are all the SEUN…namesake oo

Oldies_musiq_videos: Real definition of A MAN BREED IN THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OF FELA ANIKULAPO KUTI…

TheNewsGuru recalls that Seun in an interview had said he dislikes people using Fela as excuse to be irresponsible .

In his words:” I believe that true love must come with knowledge. To love something, you have to know it. That is why people don’t marry strangers. Some people use Fela as an excuse to be irresponsible and I speak out against it because I don’t like it. Fela did not keep billions in the bank. At any point in time, he had about 300 people staying in his house and another 500 living in the shrine, and he paid salaries and daily allowances to them all.

“All the money Fela had went back to the people; he didn’t keep it to himself. Fela’s band was 70-men strong. He didn’t need 70 people to play in his band but he just wanted them to have a means of livelihood. He was a man who put his money where his mouth was. He was benevolent to everybody around him but now, ‘they’ have destroyed the name– people just destroyed what Fela means. In the neighbourhood where the shrine was formerly located, Fela’s boys were the ones protecting the people from hooligans from other areas such as Yaba, Lagos Island, Somolu, Marina, Bariga and others. As a matter of fact, that is how the term, ‘area boy’ became a thing, and today, look at what we have turned area boys into.

Area boys were supposed to protect our communities. Fela found them basically out of his socialist brand that was assisting and protecting the community from abuse. Now, they are the ones abusing the community. Fela also fought against drug dealers”.