Spokesperson of President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign, Mr Festus Keyamo, has denied paying a “penny” to Nigerian entertainer, Charly Boy, for a political-motivated music video, adding another twist to the controversy trailing the singer and his ‘OurMumuDonDo’ group.

“I’ve been having some good laugh. Whoever thinks that I would pay a penny for a song by @Areafada1 that disses both APC and PDP must have his/her head examined”, Keyamo twitted Friday on his official handle @Fkeyamo.

This is coming barely hours after the entertainer, whose real name is Charles Oputa, publicly stated that he received at least N100 million from the Buhari campaign as payment for a politically-charged music video.

In the Music video uploaded on YouTube January 25, 67-year-old Charly Boy was critical, especially of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

“I do not care. But if you want to use my work, you pay for it,” Charly Boy recalled telling Keyamo in an interview with online-based Roots TV that was widely shared on social media on Friday. “Of course, he paid for it. And they paid heavy.”

Charly Boy said Mr Keyamo, a senior lawyer, actually visited him to discuss the arrest of Deji Adeyanju, a senior member of ‘OurMumuDonDo’ who was spending weeks in a Kano prison for alleged murder, only to then hear a “new song that I was working on…where I was dissing Atiku.”

Keyamo, on Thursday, admitted meeting Charly Boy, but said everything that transpired between them was private and in furtherance of their relationship of over 25 years.

In his Friday tweet, Keyamo said the claim that he gave financial support to the sexagenarian for the said music video was only a ploy to drag him into the controversy.

“If the quarreling parties want to hurt their egos by bandying phantom figures, they should leave me out of it,” he noted.

PT