\u2018Truth is, I\u2019ve not been in talking terms with Paul since December 2015 and that was why I travelled in January because I had a lot on my mind.Something happened at Mavin Studios last year that broke my heart.\u00a0Now listen to this, Psquare featured on songs with J-Martins, Bracket,LKT, 9ice<\/strong>\u00a0and these 4 songs were done by Paul alone, but guess what, did I appear in the videos, YES\u2019.<\/p>\n \u2018Now hear this, we have other collabos with Darey, Kaha, Ruggedman<\/b>. I did these songs alone. How come they don\u2019t have videos? Paul refused to appear in the videos\u2019.<\/p>\n \u2018So I told Paul that when next he does collabo alone, he should be in the video alone, because it got a point where artistes began to feel if they do a collabo with Paul it gets a video but if it\u2019s me it doesn\u2019t get a video.<\/p>\n The last collabo we did was with Flavour\u00a0<\/b>and I refused to do another one. Even Flavour had to speak all the Igbo he knows to convince me before I agreed to do it. Only for my brother to come and tell me that \u2018shey I thought you said you won\u2019t appear in any video that I did the collabo alone? Why did you appear on this one<\/em>?\u2019. I was sad but I knew another one will come\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u2018So Tiwa Savage<\/b>\u00a0called me, apparently Paul had gone to do a song with her, not the campaign song they are promoting now, another Psquare collabo entirely. So she called me that she\u2019s been trying to reach Paul to get the CD of the song from him that he\u2019s already done his part, so I went to Paul\u2019s house to help ask for it and tell him that I want to go to their studio to do my verse and he said he doesn\u2019t know where the CD is\u2019.<\/p>\n \u2018I went to the Mavin studio to meet Tiwa, when I got there, she asked for the CD and I told her Paul didn\u2019t give me any CD, so I called him again and gave the phone to Tiwa and told her on phone that the CD is at Omole, so I got into the studio recorded my verse and when I finished, everybody was clapping. I was surprised only to realize that Paul had gone to tell them that I don\u2019t sing or write songs\u2019.<\/p>\n \u2018I felt really bad and betrayed, but I covered up for him. I jokingly asked Teebliz<\/b>\u00a0if they gave him Red Label and he said yes, so I was like you guys caused it, and we laughed over it. So when my assistant went to pick up the CD, Paul and Jude started shouting at him to tell Peter that what is he doing at the Mavin studio? He knows how we work. The next day, I went to Paul and told him how I felt when I heard what he said. Only for Jude to say that he made Paul the lead singer of Psquare 8 years ago!<\/strong> A leader leads, he doesn\u2019t destroy.\u2019<\/p>\n But Peter says \u00a0Psquare had zero structure.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018When it comes to decision-making, it has always been a Triangle formation, and the highest vote wins. I never used to complain because we were all okay, but what has changed now is the fact that we’ve grown. You can make a certain decision based on how we used to do it and it may affect everyone as an individual, but it gets to a point when the decisions taken never gets to be my own and I began to wonder if anything is wrong\u2019.\u00a0\u2018I always get Ideas, most of Psquare ideas come from me, and when I say Idea, I mean materials we need to put out for people to see, video, stage performances and all. But when I come up with them, nobody wants to accept it. I didn’t complain because people still love what we do, but then again, there was not much competition in the industry back then\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u2018As time goes, we should get better, it shouldn’t be same triangle deciding, because if we continue that same way, we\u2019ll lose it. All I want is a proper structure in the sense that, we need to have proper management, business managers and all\u2019’. ‘\u2018As I speak to you right now, we don\u2019t have any office, no structure. When this issue started about five years ago, our lawyer told us the way we run our business is wrong without a structure\u2019.<\/p>\n \u2018I\u2019ll give you an instance\u2019.<\/p>\n \u2018We had to go perform somewhere once, and because I had a slight argument with Paul, he said he\u2019s not going. The show was the wedding of the President\u2019s daughter, because some times when we perform for some certain people, they always talk to me, they don\u2019t call Jude\u2019.<\/p>\n \u2018I didn’t even know until we got to the airport and at the end of the day we missed the reception, but we finally performed at the gala night, because when I got to the airport my brother wasn’t there, and I became confused on how I was going to explain to the President that we can\u2019t perform?<\/p>\n \u2018So I made up my mind to go with the band, perform like that and lie that my brother was sick. So we left for Abuja and when we got to the hotel dressing up my assistant manager called that he was on the way to the airport with Paul, so we had to wait for them to land in Abuja and that was why we couldn\u2019t make it on time to the reception\u2019.<\/p>\n \u2018The president was mad. In fact Mama Peace (Patience Jonathan)\u00a0was really mad. But we eventually made up for it with a performance at the Gala night.\u00a0Only for Jude to say Paul said he wasn\u2019t going for a show and I still went on it with\u2019.\u00a0\u2018Imagine if Jude had a proper structure and we had contracts? That wouldn\u2019t happen. And it was more because the show came through me. If the show came through Jude it wouldn\u2019t have happened. I don\u2019t have a problem with doing things as a family, but then the structure and proper organization is important too. The name Psquare is very big outside but inside we have no structure, I see people like Audu of Chocolate City, Mavin Records, even Ubi Franklin and I wanted us to have a structure like that. Psquare is just up there because of the grace of God.\u2019<\/p>\n You\u2019ve said a lot about Jude being the problem, and how you\u2019re the minority. But, really, as Peter, what do you bring to the table?<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018It\u2019s really sad that people have labeled me \u2018Dancer\u2019, and people don\u2019t really know what I do for Psquare. Kudos to Paul, I\u2019m not a good songwriter, in-fact I\u2019ll rate myself 30%, so when it comes to song writing, I give it to Paul 100%.\u00a0\u2018However, not writing songs does not disqualify you from being a musician. I can tell you for free that a Nigerian wrote two of the songs on Rihanna<\/b>\u2019s new album. I\u2019ve travelled a lot and most times people ask, \u2018which one are you, the singer or the dancer\u2019? And it\u2019s really sad\u2019.\u00a0\u2018In Psquare, I am the creative person, I can sit-down and tell you what people want to hear, what they want to see and what they want to learn from Psquare. But it\u2019s not something to brag about\u2019.<\/p>\n \u2018Jude directs all our videos\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018This whole thing began when Paul went online and started post lyrics of most of our songs on Instagram that he wrote them all, just because Peter brought in something to the table\u2019.\u00a0\u2018I\u2019ve been trying to bring more business for Psquare I didn\u2019t know it was going to cause problems. I sent my manager to a meeting in Senegal to meet with Universal music about getting us deals, and when he came back, the way they responded to him wasn\u2019t encouraging\u2019.<\/p>\n \u2018So I had to send Diouf<\/strong>, the footballer to help get the documents and convince my brothers before we could pull through with the deal. And after some months, we started making money. Meanwhile, while filling the forms, Jude filled everything as Psquare. So the first money came, we shared it. The second money was bigger, it came and we shared it too. That was when Paul said we had to re-fill the form and give proper credit to the songwriter (Himself) and if the form is not brought back, he\u2019s going to expose me and tell the world that he writes all the songs\u2019.\u00a0\u2018And the next day he went online to post those lyrics. So my question is, when he was doing that what did Jude do about it? Absolutely nothing!\u2019<\/p>\n PAUL IS WEAK!<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018I remember I once told Paul something, when Jude was using the term \u2018Our Money\u2019 when he just became our manager, that was when we made our first 1 million. I called Paul and told him that our former manager used to make about 15%, now that Jude is our manager, let\u2019s think of a percentage that we\u2019ll be giving him and put it on paper\u2019.\u2018Paul was like, it\u2019s not necessary. Probably, he went to tell Jude about it.\u00a0I\u2019m sorry to say this, but I think Paul is weak\u2019<\/p>\n You know they say change is constant, you can\u2019t stay at one spot, as the industry moves, you move. So I won\u2019t say the problem we have is money. I think everybody is just dragging power unnecessarily. Imagine Jude telling me that he\u2019s in charge of Psquare and there\u2019s nothing Peter and Paul can do about it, and I look at Paul he\u2019s quiet about it\u2019.’\u2018 I\u2019ve never seen where a manager talks to his artistes anyhow. If there\u2019s any issue you should call us aside quietly to talk about it\u2019’.<\/p>\n WHY I CALLED OUT JUDE ON SOCIAL MEDIA<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018First of all, if I as an artiste tells you to step down, and you say Paul and I cannot do anything, then there\u2019s no other way I can take you out than going public\u2019.<\/p>\n \u2018On December 14, 2015 we sat down to have a meeting hoping to be able to set a proper structure in place, but Paul noticed that it wasn\u2019t working the way he wanted, so he said he wants to tell us that he\u2019s starting a new group.<\/p>\n I thought he meant he wanted to start a record label, and he was like no, he\u2019s starting a new group that he belongs to. And Jude simply said, \u2018anybody stop you\u2019? He picked up his phones and walked out of the meeting. I felt it had already been discussed behind me\u2019.\u00a0\u2018I later found out that Paul is already recruiting the group and Jude is their manager. At the moment I heard they are called \u2018The MVPs\u2019 I don\u2019t know what it means yet\u2019.<\/p>\n \u2018So how do you expect me to be managed by the same person we\u2019ve been having issues with, who is now the manager of the other group. There\u2019ll surely be conflict of interest\u2019.\u00a0\u2018And it actually happened two weeks ago\u2019’. ‘\u2018Jude called me, after I had said he\u2019s fired. He called me on a\u00a0Thursday<\/span>\u00a0to say \u2018Hope you know we are going to the embassy\u00a0tomorrow<\/span>\u00a0for that show in Holland\u2019. I know about the show, it was already booked before the issues started, so I told him, \u2018Bro you are not my manager, talk to my manager\u2019. He said, \u2018Noted\u2019. And the next day, they went to the embassy with the new group members, which means they had already set up their interview at the embassy because it\u2019s not possible to get an appointment in less than 24 hours\u2019.\u00a0\u2018So I traced the organisers, and told them that Jude does not represent us, he represents only Paul. I told them this is what it takes to get Peter and Paul, Peter alone or Paul alone\u2019.\u00a0\u2018So I went on social media to protect our careers, because if I didn\u2019t do it, Psquare will not release any materials anytime soon, they\u2019ll be busy promoting their artistes\u2019.<\/p>\n \u2018And I remember going to talk to Paul about it before I went on social media, I went to his house he was in his room with his friend, and I was like can he excuse us, I want to talk to you and Paul said, no, his friend should stay, anything I want to say should be said in front of him. So I said, no, you know we are brothers and he was like, \u2018oh, na now you know say we be brothers\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n So I said, I came to talk to him about what\u2019s been happening, but it was turning into an argument so I left and I travelled out. I was away for over a month, knowing that we didn\u2019t have any show at that time. I went to Turkey, London to rest my mind, my friend Samuel Eto\u00a0<\/b>invited me to come\u2019.<\/p>\n HOW I FIRED JUDE<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018The day I fired Jude was at a concert. It was the day I came back, we had a show, so I went straight to the venue in Lagos and told Jude I want to talk to him, and he said I should say anything I want to say in front of everyone. I was like that was the same attitude Paul gave me before I travelled\u2019.\u00a0\u2018So Jude was like if I like I should get out, and I was like guy don\u2019t embarrass me. He said who are you, because you think you are Psquare? So I told him openly that if he cannot resolve me and Paul\u2019s issue, he doesn\u2019t deserve to be our manager, and he said I should get out. There and then I told him \u2018You are fired\u2019! He looked at me and said, \u2018You fit fire me\u2019?\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2018That was when I entered my car and started Tweeting. How else can you take him out? \u2019\u2018Long before I made up my mind, Paul already said there\u2019s no more Psquare, If Jude leaves he goes with him\u2019’, and before I announced my management, I wanted my mind to be clear, so I went back to Paul, this time we were alone and we spoke a lot, I told him I had no issues with him, but he needs to stop letting Jude use him as a shield. Both of us started shedding tears, and when we finished he still said he hopes I\u2019m not here to tell him that I still want Psquare and I told him I want to move on, because he already has a manager (Jude) and I don\u2019t, so I had to structure myself too\u2019. ‘\u2018And I didn\u2019t want to allow the Psquare name to fade before moving on. Look at Don Jazzy and Dbanj, when they broke up, they waited for like 6 months and had to start again. Now, that Psquare just broke up, let me use the name to move on quickly, because there\u2019s no time\u2019.<\/p>\n IF OUR MUM WAS STILL ALIVE<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018To be honest with you, I feel if our mum was still alive, we would have pushed her to her grave with this whole thing. It\u2019s really sad that even with everything going on, I still stand with Paul\u2019.<\/p>\n SIGNING SOLO DEALS<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018It still boils down to the fact that Psquare was not structured. Music is like football, Messi<\/b>\u00a0has his manager, Neymar<\/b>\u00a0has his manager, Suarez\u00a0<\/b>has his manager, but when they get to the pitch, they play as a team\u2019’. ‘\u2018Before I did the Olympic deal, I\u2019ve brought some deals for Psquare but the people endorsing Psquare only see Peter and Paul, but behind it\u2019s Peter, Paul and Jude so the price goes so high that it never works\u2019.<\/p>\n![\"Jude](\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/thenet.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/jude1.png\")
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