Popular Nigerian singer and Chief Executive Officer of HKN, Davido has admitted lying to the management of Eko Hotels and Suites over the number of peoples that bought tickets for his recently organized 30 Billion concert. The concert which took place in December 2017 at the EKO Hotel & Suites, Lagos was packed beyond capacity with several Nigerian entertainers, including Wizkid, D’banj, and 2baba Idibia, performing at the show.
The 'Fia' crooner in a recent interview with HipTV, Davido said, “That day was a crazy day for me. I remember waking up and we were looking at ticket sales like how are we going to tell EKO Hotel all these people are coming.
“We had to lie to them about the number of people that bought tickets because the limit of EKO Hotel was like 6,000 and we had over 10,000 people there.”
He further revealed the concert was almost called off over the death of his friends. In October 2017, the 25-year-old singer was accused of being complicit in the deaths of his friends, Tagbo Umeike and DJ Olu. The incidents threatened to put a damper on his concert, but it proceeded as scheduled.
“This is a concert that we almost called off when I lost my friends. We almost called off the concert because we didn’t think we had the strength or even a good public perception of us at that time. So I was just like ‘I think we should just call it off".
