Music legend Onyeka Onwenu has responded to an article in This Day Nigeria Newspapers which basically called Toni Payne a GROUPIE because she is/was married to 9ice. The article ‘A Blaze of Glory for 2Face’ was written by Azuka Ogujiuba and published on October 30 2010. The article pretty much discusses Tuface’s numerous baby mamas and the “danger they pose to his career”. Where does Toni come in? Well the writer called Toni out on her relationship with 9ice and the purpoted celebrity status she has gained from that relationship. Apart from referring to her as a Groupie she writes;
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“Toni Payne who conspicuously falls into this category because of her undying and unimaginable love to be called “Celebrity” has finally created the biggest Rift or ‘BEEF’ [referring to the 9ice/Ruggedman beef] as they say in the Nigerian Entertainment scene…Some even suggest that 9ice’s decision to end their marriage was a smart move”.
How does all this involve Onyeka Onwenu? Well…Toni handles her PR and clearly she’s made a good impression ‘cos Onyeka wrote to the editors of This Day reprimanding the article & it’s writer. The letter is too long to post but here are the interesting bits.
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My dear Azuka, if you have a thing for 9ice, why don’t you go after him and leave Toni Payne alone. You have become too obvious and deliberate in your attacks. This is not journalism but vendetta, unprovoked, unwarranted and unbearable for those of us who pay money to buy This Day on Saturdays.
Your Editor should now call you to order. Enough!
I had not intended to write this article. I had made a personal phone call to Ms Ogujiuba, to try and speak with her about her unrelenting attacks on Toni Payne. This is the conversation that ensued.
Me: “Hello! May I please speak with Azuka Ogujiuba?”
Azuka: Silence (there is some talking in the background).
Me: “Hello, my name is Onyeka Onwenu. Am I speaking to Azuka?”
Azuka: “Yes, what do you want?”
Me: “You seem not to know me but I really would like to talk with you about Toni Payne and the fact that…”
Azuka: Cuts in – “How did you even get my number?”
Me: “Oh I see that you are intent on being rude. Well, I will write your Editor instead. I don’t do rude” I switched off.
My song “One Love” has a line which says “living in the world is a struggle just staying alive” and that is true, particularly for a young, professional woman in Nigeria. The last thing she needs is a misdirected, ambitious and envious journalist, trying to put her down, ostensibly, because of her marriage choice.
I am not interested in Toni Payne’s private life and it is not my place to defend her choices but I do take exception to a journalist attacking someone for no good reason, particularly a woman. Azuka Ogujiuba, get a life and leave Toni Payne alone to live hers.
God bless you.
Onyeka Onwenu (MFR)
Your Editor should now call you to order. Enough!
I had not intended to write this article. I had made a personal phone call to Ms Ogujiuba, to try and speak with her about her unrelenting attacks on Toni Payne. This is the conversation that ensued.
Me: “Hello! May I please speak with Azuka Ogujiuba?”
Azuka: Silence (there is some talking in the background).
Me: “Hello, my name is Onyeka Onwenu. Am I speaking to Azuka?”
Azuka: “Yes, what do you want?”
Me: “You seem not to know me but I really would like to talk with you about Toni Payne and the fact that…”
Azuka: Cuts in – “How did you even get my number?”
Me: “Oh I see that you are intent on being rude. Well, I will write your Editor instead. I don’t do rude” I switched off.
My song “One Love” has a line which says “living in the world is a struggle just staying alive” and that is true, particularly for a young, professional woman in Nigeria. The last thing she needs is a misdirected, ambitious and envious journalist, trying to put her down, ostensibly, because of her marriage choice.
I am not interested in Toni Payne’s private life and it is not my place to defend her choices but I do take exception to a journalist attacking someone for no good reason, particularly a woman. Azuka Ogujiuba, get a life and leave Toni Payne alone to live hers.
God bless you.
Onyeka Onwenu (MFR)
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I would have thought Onyeka was above all of this, but everyone is human after all. Journalism these days if full if shit, everyone knows it.
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