The organizers of Headies music awards, Smooth promotions limited has frowned at singer Portable for making uncomplimentary comments about the show billed to hold in America in July.
The rave-making singer has been nominated for the Best Street-Hop Artiste and Rookie of the year awards according to the nomination list released by the Headies on Tuesday.
The singer took to his Instagram page on Wednesday where he made death threats to other artistes featured in the categories he was nominated in.
“Those are my awards, anybody else who wins I will ask for them to be killed. I will ask them to kill the person. If the organisers give my award to someone else, they will die,” he said in Yoruba. “No go give my award to another person, he go die o”
“Those are my awards, anybody else who wins I will ask for them to be killed. I will ask them to kill the person. If the organisers give my award to someone else, they will die,” he said in Yoruba. “No go give my award to another person, he go die o”
The statement read in part, “The Headies condemns such act and is vehemently opposed to the utterance of any threats or actions that contravene our laws. We have notified the Nigerian Police Force of Okikiola’s actions to fellow nominees of the awards.
“Also, demand that the immediate retraction of the video from Mr. Okikiola’s social media platforms, as well as a written apology to the nominees of both categories and to the Headies, must be made.
