Bright Okpocha, aka Basketmouth, has said that his colleague Ayo Makun, aka AY, is not his friend and has never been.
He made this statement on The Honest Bunch
Podcast in response to AY's claim that he was turned back at Basketmouth's
wedding.
AY had claimed that when he went for
Basketmouth’s wedding, his wife Mabel Makun's name was on the guest list but
his name was not on the list so he and his wife went home.
Reacting, Basketmouth said that AY is not his
friend, hence was not invited to his wedding.
Basketmouth added that neither AY nor his wife were invited to his
wedding.
Basketmouth said: "Just to set the
record straight, number one, AY is not my friend. We have never been friends.
I've never visited his house. I've never personally invited him to my house. I
never ever call him one day say, 'O boy where you dey make we hang out.' "
Recall that AY and Basketmouth have been
beefing each other for 17 years, after an incident that happened in 2006.
Basketmouth, during a Black Box interview
with media personality Ebuka Obi-Uchendu in 2021, disclosed that he fell out
with AY because he messed with loyalty.
Then, AY revealed during an interview with
Chude Jideonwo, what led to their beef.
AY said: "In 2006, Basketmouth usually
had multiple wedding gigs on Saturdays’. So what he used to do at that point in
time was to attend one, and at a point, leave the venue to catch up in the
other venue, and then he will need someone else to stand in for him. That was
the opportunity one got, of which I’m very appreciative of till date.
"Now, One of the gigs that I got his
endorsement to go stand in. Usually, what we get at that time is N30,000 and
30,000 at that time was everything to me. I got this job, and the people
weren’t too happy to see me because they were expecting Basketmouth to come,
but the guy was later happy after my performance. There was an exchange of
contacts. Then I left.
"Two weeks later, I haven’t seen 30k.
Because I didn’t see the 30k, and I was starving, I decided to ask for 30K, and
he said this person hasn’t remitted, this person hasn’t paid, And then i was
like, but this person said he was impressed and happy? Me, I don’t care if you
give Basketmouth 100k for the job, but my 30k is my 30k.
"It was very funny to now heard from
them that the full payment had been made long before the event. I forwarded
their message to one another. So they now started fighting and all of that. 1
didn’t do that because I wanted to get at Basketmouth. But because I was
hungry, I was hustling and I needed food on the table at the time."
According to AY, after the 2006 incident, he
attempted to attend Basketmouth’s wedding but wasn’t permitted into the venue.
He said: "When we arrived, my wife’s
name was on the guest list, but my own was noticeably missing. I was looking at
my wife, my wife was looking at me, and she said, let’s be going home since you
are not qualified to enter."
He further disclosed that he got kicked out
of events because Basketmouth was in attendance.
He said: "It’s so bad that my name will
be removed from an event sometimes. Basket will be at an event. Maybe AY is on
the bill, and he won’t introduce me if he’s the MC. I will just go and pick up
my mic on the floor and go and do my thing. But I never gave up. Every
opportunity, maybe the wife gives birth, I would go with my wife, or maybe
something is going on. I kept doing everything.
"One day, Basket was in the club with a
glass of drink, so I walked up to him. I said: Bright Okpocha (He’s my senior
colleague but my junior in real), how far my guy. As you can see, God has
blessed us. You have a house in Lekki, I have a house. You have a child. I have
a child. This thing that happened in 2006 guy drop am.
"And my dear colleague looked at me
eyeball to eyeball and said, I’m a beast. I don’t forgive."
Watch Basketmout speak in the video below.
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