By Osagie Alonge
Students of the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (UNAAB) had their hopes dashed today Wednesday, November 23, 2011 as Nigerian pop sensation Wizkid failed to show up for an advertised GTCrea8 eSavers Campus Concert.
GTBank, organizers of the campus show had earlier announced that the 2011 MOBO winner would be performing at the convocation ground of the school’s campus via Twitter on Monday, November 19, 2011 and further assured the public about nine hours ago. The show as announced was to take place from 3PM to 6PM.
‘In the next edition of the GTCrea8 eSavers concert, GTBank features the amazing Wizkid! cc @wizkidayo’, @gtbank tweeted on Monday and just this morning, followed uo with another reminder ‘Today the GTCrea8 eSavers campus storm featuring @wizkidayo hits UNAAB Abeokuta at 3pm! Venue: Convocation Grounds’.
But inside sources in the EME camp have disclosed to Nigerian Entertainment Today that Wizkid is ‘resting at home’ leaving the people to wonder what has gone wrong.
Sources insist that they were never contacted for the show.
We’re told neither Wizkid’s management nor record label were contacted nor are aware of any existing booking of the artiste. Inside sources say the label may be considering legal actions against the bank.
‘I won’t be commenting on anything for now. We will make an official statement tomorrow morning’, Osagie Osarenkhoe, Wizkid’s manager told Nigerian Entertainment Today in a telephone conversation.
GT Bank recently launched their GTCrea8 eSavers account targeted to cater for students and commenced a series of concerts. The first concert took place at the Indoor Sports hall of the University of Lagos on Thursday, November 3, 2011 and was headlined by D’banj.
Calls placed to the bank’s official phone numbers were put on an indefinite hold and E-mails sent were not replied as at the time of this report.
2 comments
I think the event management company handling the Show for GTbank are to be blamed for this negligence..am very sure that GTBank Must have relied on the information supplied to them by the contracted organizers before they can Tweet that Wizkid Will Be available for performance…and sometimes these promoters are not informed or are very greedy…EME are well organized and they dont disappoint Fans..GTbank Should Contact the management directly instead of relying on the show organizers…This will make the student regain their confidence in Gtbank Promo..
This case is so complicated