Abeokuta, Ogun State based Fuji music star, Alhaji (Dr.) Shefiu Alao Adekunle a.k.a. "Baba Oko" is set to shake the Fuji music industry to its foundation. How? Before now, the talented artiste had always refrained from adopting titles that could send shivers down the spines of his fellow Fuji artistes, especially, his "contemporaries." But that stance seems to have changed if the feelers reaching Saheed Ojubanire Online are anything to go by.
Shefiu Alao who is set to release a new album this December titled "Aso Olohun" for his teeming fans has adopted a new title that most, if not all other Fuji artistes may see as an affront. And what's the new title? "Agbara Orin!"
In case you don't know the import of that, wait for this break-down. There has been a power tussle among some top Fuji musicians of late which has led two particular Fuji artistes, one from Ibadan, Oyo State, and the other, from Oro, Kwara State, being at each others' jugular by claiming superiority over each other with titles.
When one was still reveling in the euphoria of having given the other a knock-out by claiming to be “King of Music”, the other who had seemed to be lying helplessly on the floor of the "boxing ring" has recently come back to life with an unexpected upper cut to the oesophagus of his opponent by claiming to be the “Federal Government of Fuji!” And while the “King of Music” is still gasping for breath from the destabilising punch, Shefiu Alao has apparently arrived with a new challenge for both.
With the new title of “Agbara Orin”, it simply means in the context of the foregoing analyses that the “boxing duo” have to subject themselves to the authority of "Baba Oko" as the new “Custodian of the Power of Music”. But Fuji music fans can keep their fingers crossed for now as Shefiu Alao's coming album prepares to rearrange the power equation in Fuji Music. The album would surely announce the new title to all who have ears and everyone could then expect reactions from the necessary quarters.
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