D BANJ DID NOT FIRE ME, I WALKED AWAY!!!

D' Banj and Former Manager

FORMER manager of hip hop star, Koko master, D’banj, Abisagboola Oluseun John, popularly called Bankulli, may have broken his almost a month silence since the news broke about two weeks ago, that he was fired by his boss.
Both parties have kept mum over the issue after someone in D’banj’s camp ‘leaked’ the news. This development led to wild speculations. A version had it that, “following repeated disagreements between D’banj and Bankulli that bothered on issues of trust, leading to accusations and counter-accusations, D’banj got angry and slapped Bankulli and subsequently fired him”.

Another version says; “The pair got into a heated argument when D’banj found out Bankulli went to Paris after the Koko concert to work on Kanye West’s next album without his knowledge. Bankulli allegedly left for Paris after the Koko concert in December and his employer/artiste wasn’t aware of his ‘clandestine’ trip to Paris to drop adlibs on Kanye’s next album”.
However, it is revealed that the relationship between D’banj and Bankulli began to wear thin towards the end of last year, based on accusations that D’banj is a “very insensitive and nonchalant person”. A Source close to D’banj’s who spoke on condition of anonymity revealed that, “what really happened is an accumulation of D’banj’s insensitive attitude, of course he’s a big star, but he’s a very difficult person, its part of his attitude and lifestyle”.

After the last edition of Koko Concert that was held in December 2012 at the Eko Atlantic city, the source claimed that D’banj went ahead to do a lot of things without consulting with his team, and on the few occasions he did, he was insensitive, and rather chose to attend private parties enjoying himself which in no small measure contributed to some of the flops recorded during the Koko concert, and this further infuriated Bankulli. “Truthfully, Bankulli traveled to Paris, France few days after Koko Concert, and baba (D’banj) was aware of the trip, but it’s not clear as at that time if he was going to France to work with Kanye West or not, but it seemed D’banj wasn’t comfortable with the fact that Bankulli was getting more attention from Kanye West’s camp”, the source said. The source laughed when posed with the question if Bankuli was indeed fired. “Fired ke, he walked away. Bankuli showed courage and walked away because I believe he had had enough. Working with D’banj is tough as hell. Do you know that everybody that works with baba always gets tired of him and walks away? Fired him? No.”

When contacted, Bankulli said: “D’banj didn’t fire me, I just decided to move on. I was shocked when I read that D’banj ‘fired’ me. Whoever leaked that story was just being malicious.”
He declined having any heated argument with D’banj, or if he was in France to work with Kanye West without D’banj’s consent. D’banj and Bankulli have not seen eye to eye this year, their friendship however goes back over a decade when Bankuli worked with R70 under DJ Abass and Ayo Shonaiya to provide management and agency support.

Bankulli’s relationship with D’Banj became prominent following the Mo’Hits break up last year. For those in the know, Bankulli was hugely instrumental in getting D’banj the G.O.O.D Music deal, because he was the one who approached Kanye West at the Dubai airport to listen to D’banj’s songs and that signaled the beginning of the relationship between D’banj and Kanye West.