‘Charly Boy Is A Rebel Without A Constructive Cause’

By Dimeji Ogedengbe

The CEO of Stingomania Entertainment, Ope Banwo has described the recent ‘attack’ on the leadership of Collecting Society of Nigeria (COSON) by Charly Boy as unfair, irrelevant and libelous.

According to Banwo, “It is most unfair of Charly Boy to attack the leadership of COSON the way he has done on the pages of newspapers without addressing the issues that are relevant to stakeholders in the industry other for him to say that Tony Okoroji and DG OF NCC, Bambo Adewopo are irresponsible’’.

Mr Banwo’s comments are contained in a release issued by his publicists and made available to NET.

Ope Banwo who is a US-based lawyer and a former CEO of Dove Media further commented that the activities of the former PMAN president are unproductive. He said it is ridiculous of the former PMAN president to accuse the legal adviser to his own Musical Copyright Society of Nigeria (MCSN) organization of bias for licensing COSON; ‘‘common sense will suggest that if Bambo (Adewopo) were to be biased, he would have done it in favor of an organization that he is still officially their legal adviser instead of a new entity’’.

Continuing, he said “Frankly, I am really curious to understand how Charly Boy could come out and blast Adewopo for licensing COSON. I mean the guy is the legal adviser to your own MCSN from what I hear. If Charly Boy’s own organization’s legal adviser is saying MCSN does not deserve to be re-licensed, what exactly does Charly Boy want us to do? That is clearly a vote of no confidence in him by the most important legal person attached to his organization”.

Debunking claims of having issues with the bike-loving musician, the attorney explained that on the contrary he admires the musician who’s gut in challenging the status quo he grew up admiring.

‘‘All I want in the collecting body is change and results’’ he says, while daring Charly Boy to come out and publish the list of people whose lives got better with his collecting society or the people who received fair compensation for their copyrights. ‘‘I advise Charly Boy to  get involved in fights that will produce results and not just fight for fighting sake’’.

‘‘I advise Charly Boy to take a leave and allow new and fresh hands like Banky W, MI, Don Jazzy to take over so as to move forward’’.