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Pirates Confraternity out with new ‘hit single’ after ‘E mi lo kan’

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Pirates Confraternity out with new ‘hit single’ after ‘E mi lo kan’
Members of the Pirates during a procession

The National Association of Seadogs (NAS), otherwise known as Pirates Confraternity, is on the sail again.

The group has come out with a new ‘hit single’, two weeks after stirring up the nation’s political space with ‘E mi lo kan’, in apparent reference to the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Tinubu used the phrase, E mi lo kan, Yoruba for ‘It’s my turn’, to press home his point while speaking in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on why he should be nominated as the APC’s presidential candidate for the 2023 election. He had since gone ahead to clinch the party’s ticket as the standard bearer.

E mi lo kan lyrics references a physically unfit man laying claims to a position. “Hand dey shake, leg dey shake, Baba wey no well, dey shout e mi lo kan,” the song rendered in pidgin English goes.

READ: Buhari wouldn’t have been President without me – Tinubu brags

Even though the song does not mention anyone by name, it, however, earned the organisation which prides itself as a “charitable and humanitarian organisation”, contempt by sympathisers and supporters of Tinubu, who expressed angst at the characterisation.

The latest song, unlike ‘e mi lo kan’, is more specific, mentioning former Minister of Niger Delta, Godswill Akpabio, by name.

The Pirates recreated the shenanigan at a National Assembly committee hearing on the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), which threw up the hilarious phrase, “Off your mic”.

The song goes: “Forensic Audit, Godswill Akpabio, It’s okay, It’s okay oooh, Honourable Minister, Off your mic.”

See video at Chidi Odinkalu‘s Twitter handle:

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