Veteran Nigerian artist John Odafe Asiemo, nicknamed Daddy Showkey, has disclosed that after he had an interview with media figure Daddy Freeze on Instagram live, someone in the government phoned him and threatened to kill him.

In the interview, Daddy Showkey made a comment regarding the controversial death of the rapper Mohbad on September 12, 2023.

He accused certain influential figures in the music industry and society of having something to do with the rapper’s death.

Returning to Daddy Freeze’s Instagram live session on Monday night, Showkey said he had been receiving threats from people in government since his last comment on Mohbad’s demise.

He said, “Daddy Freeze, do you know after my last interview with you, I received a lot of death threats? Do you know after that interview, even people in government were threatening me?

“I told them that they should go and watch your interview, did I say anything wrong? And what I’m saying, I’m saying the truth. You would not believe what I went through. I did not sleep throughout that night. They were just threatening me.

“Daddy Freeze, I don’t know what you are going through with all these things you are doing o. Because the kind of threats that they threatened me, I come dey talk say what of you?”

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