Lol, Here is a press release from Ejiro. I don't even to read it, it sounds like total BS to me. Well, read the press release below and tell me what you think
The 2013 edition of the Most Beautiful Girl in Abuja has come and
gone with many still talking about the success of the event, however, mix reaction continues to trail the outcome of the event over the controversial
revelation by Ruggedman about his experience in the hands of the
organizers. Ruggedman who supposedly attended the event alongside other
top celebrities to include former Super Eagles Coach, Samson Siasia,
Sylvia Nduka, MBGN (2011), Oge Okoye, Chuks the General, Matilda Duncan,
Fred Bright and a host of others walked away from Abuja, claiming to
had been duped by the convener of the event, Mr Ejiro Okpihwo.
In his
long writeup, he had rained curses on the organizers for failing to pay
him his N100,000 honorarium he was to be paid for the show, and for
letting him fly back without a return ticket. But in a swift reaction on behalf of the organizers, Mr. Ejiro denied having done anything wrong to Ruggedman, threatening to sue him for not heeding to the terms of their agreement. He said Ruggedman
had pleaded to perform at the show, just to build more fan base as he
is about to drop a new album. He said that the so called honorarium that
Ruggedman was 'hammering on was only N50,000 and not N100,000 as he had
alleged. Ejiro had told a reporter, Adoyi Ali in Abuja after he was
asked to present his own side of the story. The MBGA boss was approached
while coming out of a church on Sunday
morning.
Mr Ejiro had said vehemently that not in the history of the
entertainment Industry had an artist of Ruggedman's status humiliated
himself over such a little amount of money as claimed. He said, “first
of all, I'm embarrassed that this man, Ruggedman, could bring himself so low by exposing his own shame publicly in the media.
I'm embarrassed because no artiste could have done what this guy did
to us even when we felt we were doing him a big favour. Look, I have
organized several editions of this event, and different artistes have
graced our event, but we have never been swindled before. This is our
first experience, and unfortunately, it's an artiste who has lost
audience appeal that did this to us. Anyway, I wanted to let this pass,
but since he has gone to humiliate himself in the media, I will follow
this up. I'm consulting with my lawyer at the moment, and we may sue
Rugged man for defamation of character, and his failure to heed to our
earlier agreement with him. Speaking further, he said, "it’s amazing the
way Ruggedman misbehaved. As a supposed respected elder in the business
of entertainment, we never expected that from him.
No wonder he had a
fight with his boy, 9ice who became bigger and better than him in the
music game. Quite frankly, what we do when we are bringing an artiste to
our show is to pay the person upfront, he gives us his most convenient
time to travel, and we book his return ticket. It's laughable and
extremely ridiculous that Rugged is claiming we were to pay him
honorarium of N100,000. I couldn't have paid him N100,000 when he was
the one who begged us for the show. He
said he wanted the award to get himself acquainted with his Abuja fans.
This is not what we would have loved to say ordinarily, if not that he has gone public, because we respect all the artistes we deal with, no matter the status. Having called me personally to beg for theaward, we told him, look, we will appreciate your presence after our
event as we did not put you in our budget earlier. We then booked for
his flight, we sent him the tickets reference number(ZYRBRL)and he came
into Abuja on Friday,
the 25th of October, 2013 and was picked up from the airport without
delays.
He was also checked into a classic hotel with a four star value
as agreed, TOP RANK GALAXY HOTEL ABUJA ROOM 224 & 225, with food and
drinks on ground for him to enjoy a day before the event. But unfortunately for the MBGA
organizers, Ruggedman refused to pick up calls placed to him. In fact,
He went ahead to even show some other artistes that also came for the
event with him in the same hotel, that "see, see, see, the organizers of
the event are calling me, but I will not pick, I will make them go
through hell since they have refused to see me since yesterday that I
arrived. We wondered at the change of agreement and his refusal to pick
up calls. The question was why was our own Ruggedman disgracing himself
over N50,000 that we agreed to pay him after the event. At list, we
expected him to pick up and give us his new terms, but he never did.
Information got to us that he was to have a meeting with some people
that time over his album, the reason he used our show for
transportation. Denying that such was the attitude of the organizers
towards artistes and guests, Ejiro said, "if we can invite all the
Nollywood acts, artistes and comedians like him, why should we not want
to pay him a little amount of N50,000 only? Threaten him, nobody did that, instead, he was using different
people to threaten us. I think the guy wants to use us to promote his
album, but we won't let his gimmicks distract us, as we will continue to
pull great events for Abuja people." Ejiro had affirmed.
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