The Muslim Rights Concern has lampooned sensational afrobeats musician, David Adeleke, aka Davido, and his signee, Olamilekan Taiwo, aka Logos Olori, for releasing the now deleted controversial music video of the latter titled ‘Jaye Lo’.
In a statement on Monday, the founder of the Islamic organisation, Prof Ishaq Akintola, said MURIC had alerted the Department of State Services to invite the duo for questioning concerning the music video, which was described as insensitive to Muslim feelings.
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Akintola noted that a seven-day ultimatum had been issued to Davido to pull down the video.
The statement read, “Logos Olori, an artist under David Adeleke, aka Davido, recently released a music video with the caption, ‘Jaye Lo’. In the video, some people dressed in white jalabiyas like Muslims were seen praying the way Muslims do before launching into dancing as they recited some Quranic verses and prayed.
“Mats were spread for those praying behind an ‘Imam’ who used the popular single-prayer rug (sajadah). Those who were praying also read out what looked like Muslim recitations in Arabic language and prostrated the way Muslims do in prayer.
“Logos Olori himself was seen sitting on the roof of a mosque-like building mounted with a horn public address system thus creating the complete impression of a mosque scenario.”
Akintola said that without doubt, the scene in the music video was the setting of a Muslim prayer session, but mixing it with singing and dancing was utterly wrong in concept and grossly misleading in content.
Akintola said, “Thousands of Nigerian Muslims have expressed displeasure with the new music video and the Nigerian media have published their reactions.
“Our office in particular has been inundated with complaints against this luciferous music video. Nigerian Muslims find the juxtaposition of Muslims in prayer sessions with the same Muslims singing and dancing offensive, repugnant and provocative.
“Logos Olori’s musical video is insensitive to Muslim feelings, while Davido himself added salt to the injury on the Muslim anatomy by promoting the video in his tweet. There is no iota of doubt that both men, Davido and his signee, have no modicum of respect for the faith of Islam. They have provoked millions of Nigerian Muslims.”
Akintola further said, “We alert men of the Department of State Services to invite both men for questioning to explain why they chose to produce and promote a musical video capable of igniting anarchy in Nigeria.
“In the same vein, we invite the National Broadcasting Corporation and the National Film And Video Censors Board to immediately ban the insensitive musical video captioned ‘Jaye Lo’ by Logos Olori.
“MURIC objects to the lame excuse often given by Nigerian agencies charged with moderation responsibilities who claim that separate petitions should be addressed to them by complainants before they can take action. It does not work that way in saner climes. Nigerian agencies must be proactive.”
