Bright Okpocha, aka Basketmouth, has said that his colleague Ayo Makun, aka AY, is not his friend and has never been.
He made this statement on The Honest Bunch Podcast in response to AY’s claim that he was turned back at Basketmouth’s wedding.
AY had claimed that when he went for Basketmouth’s wedding, his wife Mabel Makun’s name was on the guest list but his name was not on the list so he and his wife went home.
Reacting, Basketmouth said that AY is not his friend, hence was not invited to his wedding. Basketmouth added that neither AY nor his wife were invited to his wedding.
Basketmouth said: “Just to set the record straight, number one, AY is not my friend. We have never been friends. I’ve never visited his house. I’ve never personally invited him to my house. I never ever call him one day say, ‘O boy where you dey make we hang out.’ ”
Recall that AY and Basketmouth have been beefing each other for 17 years, after an incident that happened in 2006.
Basketmouth, during a Black Box interview with media personality Ebuka Obi-Uchendu in 2021, disclosed that he fell out with AY because he messed with loyalty.
Then, AY revealed during an interview with Chude Jideonwo, what led to their beef.
AY said: “In 2006, Basketmouth usually had multiple wedding gigs on Saturdays’. So what he used to do at that point in time was to attend one, and at a point, leave the venue to catch up in the other venue, and then he will need someone else to stand in for him. That was the opportunity one got, of which I’m very appreciative of till date.
“Now, One of the gigs that I got his endorsement to go stand in. Usually, what we get at that time is N30,000 and 30,000 at that time was everything to me. I got this job, and the people weren’t too happy to see me because they were expecting Basketmouth to come, but the guy was later happy after my performance. There was an exchange of contacts. Then I left.
“Two weeks later, I haven’t seen 30k. Because I didn’t see the 30k, and I was starving, I decided to ask for 30K, and he said this person hasn’t remitted, this person hasn’t paid, And then i was like, but this person said he was impressed and happy? Me, I don’t care if you give Basketmouth 100k for the job, but my 30k is my 30k.
“It was very funny to now heard from them that the full payment had been made long before the event. I forwarded their message to one another. So they now started fighting and all of that. 1 didn’t do that because I wanted to get at Basketmouth. But because I was hungry, I was hustling and I needed food on the table at the time.”