Portable Apologises To Organisers Of Headies For Issuing Death Threats To Co-Nominees

May 28, (THEWILL) – Portable Apologises To Organisers Of Headies For Issuing Death Threats To Co-Nominees

Controversial singer, Habeeb Okikiola, aka Portable, has apologised to the organisers of The Headies Awards 2022 for threatening co-nominees.

Portable’s apology is coming few hours after the organisers threatened to disqualify him.

Portable had taken to his Instagram page during the week to make death threats to other artistes featured in the categories he was nominated in.

“Those are my awards, anybody else who wins I will ask for them to be killed. I will ask them to kill the person. If the organisers give my award to someone else, they will die”, he said in Yoruba.

“No go give my award to another person, he go die o”
The organisers of the annual awards threatened to disqualify him if he fails to retract his statement and issue an apology on his social media pages.

Portable was nominated to vie in the ‘Rookie of the Year’ and ‘Best Street-Hop Artiste’ categories.

In the ‘Rookie of the Year’ category, he is expected to compete with Av, Fave, Magixx, and Ugoccie.

For the second category, he is pitted against Bella Shmurda, Mohbad, Naira Marley, and Goya Menor among others.

Responding via his Instagram page on Friday night, Portable taunted the award organisers, saying they “nominated a mad man musician”
“Headies, you invited a mad person and you’ve seen one…this year’s Headies will boom, you’ve nominated a mad man musician… street is taking over…we no fight, we just dey talk am, say we no want competition so make una give us our award,” he said.

“No vex o bros. If I f*uck up, no be me be the first to do that. Plenty people don dey f*uck up. Abeg I wan collect my award.”