Talent manager Toni Payne recently took to her Instagram stories to recount how ace comedian, Ayo Makun aka AY refused to give Olamide a chance to perform at his show when the latter was an upcoming artiste. According to her, AY later came back to beg for a favour when Olamide hit the spotlight about a year later.
In her post, she disclosed that she had requested AY to allow Olamide perform at his (AY’s) show but he declined even though they had a good working relationship.
She also revealed that the incident made her cut ties with AY. She said while she understands his turning down Olamide as an upcoming artiste, he looked like a usher asking for a free performance when Olamide’s rose to stardom.
Read her post below:
“Lol… I was speaking to a friend today and it reminded me of one story when I was managing Olamide… I stopped speaking to comedian AY cos of this incident and honestly till today, I’m glad I did cos I don’t like people with that sort of character.
So me and AY used to be cool. I’d done favors for him in the past, no big deal. When Olamide was coming up, I decided to ask cash in a favor and ask if Olamide could perform at his show even if it’s for a minute.
Omo, see ela. The man refused to give the boy a chance. It pained me ehn. I took the L and lamented for weeks. Lmao! No wahala, we sha kept it pushing. Anyways fast forward to the next year, Olamide had started doing well and guess who conveniently needed a favor, and wanted Olamide to perform? Oga comedian.
This is the same guy that turned Ola down cos he wasn’t big now looking for “friend of the house” performance. See ehn, it’s ok to turn him down, nothing is by force but don’t come back later looking for a favor from that same person you underrated. It makes you look like a user. IMO!”