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Veteran Nollywood actor, Patrick Doyle has slammed Afrobeats star David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido over his recent remark advising Black Americans against relocating to Nigeria.
TheNewsGuru.com(TNG) reports that the ‘Feel’ crooner, during an interview on ‘The Big Homies House’ podcast, expressed scepticism about the growing interest amongst Black Americans wanting to find their roots.
The singer while responding to the show host’s question about black Americans seeking to return to the motherland, said, “Leave America and go where? It is not cool back home. The economy is in shambles”
Davido stressed the economic difficulties and systemic issues affecting African countries.
“It is not cool back home. The economy is in shambles. I do my part, I am an ambassador. When I go home and I am filming, I am no going to show the bad parts,” he said.
“I am talking about the situation in the country. Now the exchange rate is messed up, a lot of stuffs are not going well.
“The economy is just not good enough. The oil price is too high. Imagine the country that produces oil, paying more for it than a country importing oil.”
The comment, however, attracted mixed reactions from some citizens.
Reacting to the controversial statement via his Facebook page, Patrick Doyle refers to Davido as an incredibly dense person for telling outsiders not to visit a country where his father has a $2 billion power generation investment.
He said, “You have to be incredibly dense to ask foreigners not to visit a country where your father has a $2 Billion Dollar power generation investment. Some persons ought to know much better.”
Similarly, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Joe Igbokwe in a post on his official Facebook page advised the singer to retract his statement with immediate effect.
Igbokwe said, “My In-law Davido has made me sad by telling the world in America that Nigeria’s economy is in shambles.
“This is very sad. I will advise him to retract the statement asap. Nigeria made Davido. !!!”
Similarly, Bashir Ahmed, a former aide to Nigerian former president, Mohammadu Buhari said the remark was disappointing.
In a post on his official X handle, Bashir said, “Selling out your country from foreign soil is so disappointing and unpatriotic. Public figures like Davido should know that.
“They should act and be seen as good ambassadors for Nigeria wherever they find themselves. @NOA_Nigeria”!
