The late former governor of Oyo state, Christopher Alao-Akala, reportedly paid Nigerian singer Taye Currency N99 million more than ten years ago, according to Taye Currency.
At the annual Oshodi Day event, the musician from Oyo sung about how Alao-Akala altered his financial situation.
The event was held in Lagos on December 27, 2023.
While performing on stage, Currency reminisced about his 2011 appearances at Akala’s campaign rallies.
During the campaign, he claimed that the concert promoter consistently withheld payments, sometimes leaving him without money for up to three days.
The singer said that he approached the then-governor about the late payments in his home in an attempt to retrieve his money.
According to him, Akala insisted on an explanation for his reaction. He claimed that after informing him that he was still due N500,000 and had not received payment, the then-governor instructed his wife, Kemi Akala, to handle his payments for the remainder of the campaign.
Currency said Akala then paid him N99 million as the total of all his performances at the 33 local governments in the state.
Taye Currency reveals how he got is 99million naira pay for Alao Akala.
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“I want to talk about how I became somebody in life. In 2011, when we were campaigning for Akala, the person in charge of payments for the shows would always delay my payments. If I performed today, he would not pay me on time,” he said.
“Then one day, I was in Akala’s house and as he was approaching, the street boy in me got angry and I started shouting. I told him that I was yet to be paid and as such I would not come here anymore. Akala looked at me shocked and I knew he could not do anything to me because I was a musician.
“I shouted again that I was yet to be paid, so I would not come here again. He then asked me what the problem was. I told him that the N500,000 I was supposed to be paid for my performance had not been given to me. He said he did not ask them to give me N500,000. He then told Mrs Kemi Akala, his first lady that from that day henceforth, she should be the one paying me.
“Akala then told them to pay for the performances of 33 local governments, which was N99 million. It is just like yesterday, when I collected that money I could not sleep. That was how I made it, just like that. It happened in the presence of my people. Even after I had sorted everyone out, I still had about N60 million.”
