Fuji maestro, Wasiu Ayinde
Omogbolahan Anifowoshe aka K1, has revealed why he shunned the fifth
memorial service and concert of legendary Fuji singer, Sikiru Ayinde
Agbajelola aka Barrister.
In a report by Punch Newspaper, K1
revealed that he decided to shun the concert when he realised the children of
the deceased singer were bent on having a regular shindig as against an
intellectual seminar to immortalise his former boss.
In his words, “I am a true
musical son of the late Barrister. I served him truly. When he died, I had my
plans to immortalise his name so that every other Fuji musician can benefit and
learn from him. I told the former governor, Babatunde Fasola, about my plans
and he agreed with me. But Barrister’s family had their own plans as well. He
had grown up children. If they had looked at me as one of them, there wouldn’t
have been any problem. You cannot force grown up people to listen to you. I
told his family and members of Fuji Musicians Association of Nigeria about my
plans to immortalise Barrister and how we could turn his home to a museum.
"I don’t like it when an issue
is brought to the table and everybody discusses it but when it comes to
funding, you leave it for one man. After five years, Barrister’s children went
different ways from our plan. One of his children commissioned somebody to
write a book on Barrister. It is their right I agree," he said.
Speaking further, K1 said, 'But
then, they came to me after five years to tell me they planned doing something
for their father’s memorial. I told them my plan was to establish a foundation
for their father so that people would benefit from it. I wanted us to organise
seminars and do something different from aso ebi. They didn’t like the idea.
They wanted to sell Ankara. I told
them if they wanted to just hold a party and enjoy, I wouldn’t be a part of it.
Governor (Akinwumi) Ambode hadn’t spent two months in office and you just want
me to run to him and tell him we want to do Barrister’s anniversary. If it were
to be for a seminar, it would have been easier. I wanted us to showcase
Barrister as a founding father of fuji music. His children stopped coming to me
because I wasn’t in support of their idea.
'They have the right to do whatever
they want because he was their father. I cannot be blackmailed into anything. I
do whatever I am doing to honour the man. I served him all my life. If his
memorial was just going to be a party thing, I decided I wasn’t going to be a
part of it and that was what happened,'
he said.
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