TVC presenter Akashat Nymat recently criticized Davido for his remarks urging black Americans not to relocate to Africa, especially during a recent interview. Davido had warned Americans about the state of Africa’s economy, which he described as being in “shambles,” while clarifying that his intention wasn’t to speak negatively about the continent but to highlight the contrasts, focusing on the more developed areas rather than the slums.
Reacting to Davido’s comments on Your View on TVC, Nymat accused the music star of not doing enough for the masses, implying that his public statements lacked substance in terms of practical contributions to improving conditions in Africa.
She said;
“As he done a service to the average Nigerians inside Ede? That doesn’t know the royal family of Ede? As he done a service to Nigerians in Inuwarong? Who is in the bush trying to get food? As he bought everything they needed with rice farms in Bida? No! He hasn’t. He has come to lose truth of the Elite. The people who spend dollars for food are proper, not those who buy beans for pain.
We know that this country is hard and that the reforms were forced on us because if we had continued to feed the elite, it would be worse off.
We’re suffering under that weight, and what you can say is, “It’s hard here”. During the elections in America, an opera would sing at the election, but she wouldn’t sit on a show or sit at a table and tell a foreign interviewer what Davido did. That’s wrong. Because you say there, now your reference point for whether they should go ahead and invest in the country.
See the point is, no matter how true your truth is, if it’s not going to be of service to your people. It is in the corridors where he could give that one privately, but he chose to tell Americans can’t come here, whereas what we need is foreign investors. That’s what how government has said we need.
Except Davido can show me two or three companies where he produces beans, rice, and local foods for the local man, he can’t be talking to anyhow. I don’t see any service he has done.
Davido is a person of influence and should be more guarded in his utterances, especially about the country that has given him that fame”.