David Hundeyin slams Peter Okoye, Seun Kuti on conflict over Peter Obi

Seun Kuti, an Afrobeats icon, and Peter Okoye, a hip-hop vocalist best known as half of the PSquare, are engaged in a social media battle that doesn’t appear to be going anywhere anytime soon. A variety of performers, celebrities, and social media influencers have taken sides in the spat.

Investigative journalist David Hundeyin from Nigeria is the most recent to enter the conflict. On Thursday afternoon, he used his verified Twitter account, @DavidHundeyin, to caution both sides and urge them to leave sleeping dogs alone.

In one of the tweets, the controversial journalist wrote:

“Smoking igbo is not a personality trait, neither is it a revolutionary behaviour. Weed doesn’t make you a wise sage or a genius.

“Fela was a genius *in spite of* smoking weed, not *because of* doing so. Weed is only a moderately addictive psychotropic substance and nothing more.”

In a second tweet apparently aimed at the Okoyes who had performed for President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) after winning the election, he said:

“Also, anyone who enthusiastically supported Buhari in 2015 and still imagines that they have the same influence or social cachet that they had at this time 8 years ago is living in cloud cuckoo land.

“Wake up, go outside, and touch grass, my dear. You’re not that guy anymore.”

In a final tweet which he seemed to direct at Seun, Hundeyin said:

“Peter Obi has already crossed the rubicon, so all this “they’re all the same” and “none of them is a saint” talk is a waste of Seun Kuti‘s time.

“It has zero impact at this point except to piss people off. The time for all this chat was like a year ago. Far too late now.”