{"id":48051,"date":"2024-09-10T15:20:43","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T15:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=48051"},"modified":"2024-09-10T15:20:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T15:20:43","slug":"felas-early-death-due-to-not-minding-his-business-portable-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/09\/10\/felas-early-death-due-to-not-minding-his-business-portable-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Fela\u2019s Early Death Due to \u2018Not Minding His Business\u2019, Portable Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Cynthia Abbah<\/p>\n<p>Controversial Nigerian singer Portable has made shocking remarks, blaming the late Afrobeats pioneer and activist Fela Anikulapo-Kuti for his own death.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview on the \u2018Echoo Room\u2019 podcast with media personality Quincy Jonze, Portable suggested that Fela\u2019s early demise was due to his lack of discretion. \u201cAccording to what we were told,\u201d Portable said, \u201cif Fela had minded his own business a little, he might have lived longer. But he was too busy fighting for Nigerians who didn\u2019t fight for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the same interview, Portable also addressed his ongoing feud with rapper Zlatan Ibile, whom he referred to as the \u201cdevil\u201d behind his conflicts with Davido. Portable claimed, \u201cI was in America looking for foreign artists and displaying my madness online when Davido called me. Me and Davido had no issues until Zlatan came along.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cynthia Abbah Controversial Nigerian singer Portable has made shocking remarks, blaming the late Afrobeats pioneer and activist Fela Anikulapo-Kuti for his own death. In a recent interview on the \u2018Echoo Room\u2019 podcast with media personality Quincy Jonze, Portable suggested that Fela\u2019s early demise was due to his lack of discretion. \u201cAccording to what we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48052,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48051\/revisions\/48052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}