Iyanya describes Ubi Franklin as a ‘distraction’

‘Kukere” crooner Iyanya has denied claims that he called out his former boss Ubi Franklin just to revive his career which seems to have nose dived in recent times.

The singer was forced to deny the claims in an interview after he was blasted on social media by critics who claimed he was making a desperate effort by dragging Ubi Franklin in public to revive his career.

Reacting to the claims Iyanya said; “I just want to focus on music. Right now, my major focus is on my new record label, Violet 360. I was actually doing a media tour for the new label before I got blindsided with the whole Ubi story; that was never meant to be the focus.

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“I see it as a distraction. People can think whatever they like; I have no control over that. I just finished recording a song with Duncan Mighty and I would prefer we focus on that. Very soon, I will be putting out an Extended Play album titled, The Rebirth,” he added.

Recall that Iyanya, during an interview with Ndani TV, spoke on his fallout with Ubi Franklin saying he did not sell his share of the label but decided to leave Made Men Music because there was so much ‘darkness’ there at the time.

“What people don’t know is, I didn’t sell my share. People see me and say oh why did you sell your share? I didn’t sell my shares, I left Made Men at the time because there was so much darkness. In the midst of all the wings, I decided to let that go.

“When I said it was darkness, I was not myself anymore because I felt like there was no trust anymore. Because at the time I was singing, I co-owned Made Men with Ubi but I later realized that my name was not in any of the forms I signed and I was broken and that was the beginning of me just saying to hell with everything,” he had said during the interview.

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