Frontline Fuji musician, King Wasiu Ayinde K1, has been called upon by a socio-cultural group, Ebedi Frontliners, (EFI), to stop talking like God.
The group also urged the popular musician to stop threatening the life of his ex-lead drummer, Ayankunle Ayanlowo, an indigene of Ado-Awaye in Iseyin Local Government Area.
The group made this known in a statement on Wednesday by its Director of Publicity, Alhaji Segun Fasaasi, in reaction to the face-off between K1 and his estranged lead talking drummer.
EFI, in the statement, also called on the police authority and the State Security Service (SSS) to, as a matter of urgency, invite the musician to explain his part in the claim by Ayanlowo that some people were trailing him and his family for speaking out against his former boss.
Ayankunle Ayanlowo recently released a trending video, telling the world about why he left the band and how the renown Fuji musician has allegedly turned himself and other band members to slaves.
He claimed that K1 offered his band members poor welfare package and also hoarded of their traveling documents.
K1 has, however, denied all the allegations by his estranged lead talking drummer, as he reportedly stated that all drummers were fond of complaining and were too much in love with money.
He also stated in a viral video that he is the sole owner of his band and that he has the power to hire and fire any of the members.
EFI stated that the defense by K1 only portrayed him as usurping the role of God, “as he was not better off to Ayankunle or any other individual that took drumming as a vocation.
“In that video and other ones in which he addressed people, he talked like God. He has forgotten that he started as a nobody but met God’s grace later in life. K1 needs to thread softly and desist from treating fellow humans like slaves.
“We have been watching for long to see where this skirmish would end but cannot continue to watch when Ayankunle, who is our brother, came out to say he was attacked twice by some people in Ibadan.
“He also said he got his phone damaged in the process, though he escaped unscathed.
“This is barbaric and uncalled for. We know the musician has cult-like followership who can attack his perceived enemies which portend great danger to our brother.”
The group called on the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun and the Director General of the SSS, Yusuff Bichi, to urgently commence investigation into the allegation of threat to life by Ayanlowo.
It urged the security agencies to invite K1 and get an assurance from him that Ayanlowo’s life will be safe alongside his wife and children.
The group stated that the call became necessary “so that the drummer will not die like other entertainers who cried out against threats to their lives but were waved off by the society.
“We are using this medium to call on the Inspector General of Police and the Director General of SSS to urgently wade into this case.
“We do not want his [Ayanlowo] case to be like that of the late Mobahd who had died before Nigerians and the security started asking for the cause.”
The group, however, expressed its appreciation to Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora for their show of love for Ayanlowo before and immediately after he came out to talk about his experience under his former boss.
EFI urged the people not to relent in helping other people in the same condition, noting that the support garnered on social media platforms for the drummer forced K1 to respond to the allegations.
