Veteran comedian, Bright Okpocha, popularly known as Basketmouth, has finally opened up about his beef with his colleague, AY Makun.

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In an interview earlier this year, AY claimed that their longstanding beef was over N30,000 owed to him by Basketmouth.

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However, Basketmouth has now debunked AY's claims, stating that they were never friends, and that the working relationship they had was a one-off deal.

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Speaking on The Honest Bunch podcast hosted by media personality Nedu, Basketmouth explained that he had heard some things about AY that he was not supposed to know and, as a result, kept his distance.

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He said, "The reason I used style mind my business, na because of when there was that coming together [between AY and I], I heard something that threw me off. I heard some things wey I no supposed to hear or know. As I hear am, I was like ‘What the f*ck! Really?’ I no supposed know. And I no fit tell am [AY] so I kept quiet."

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He also clarified that the issue of the N30,000 was not about a client owing him money, as AY had claimed, but about a single job for which he had instructed the client to pay AY.

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Basketmouth stated that AY had omitted this information and that he believed AY needed to sell tickets for his shows.

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Basketmouth concluded by saying that he had tried to ignore the matter for a long time, but felt the need to set the record straight.

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He expressed his disappointment that the issue was still being discussed in 2023, saying, "Ukraine dey fight war, we dey talk of 30 thousand [naira]."

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