Portable disputes with the show’s promoters and refuses to appear for a paid performance in Italy.

Nigerian Afrobeat superstar Portable has written a detailed account of what really happened during his cancelled performance in Italy on his Instagram account.

Portable and the performance promoters recently got into a fight after he failed to check a paid concert for unprofessionalism.

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The musician was seen discussing how he was robbed and almost kidnapped following an apparent plan to do so by the performance promoters in a video that has gone viral.

He acknowledged that he and his team had stopped his driver from running to the area he had designated as dangerous.

He wrote further about the experience:

“After my successful eight shows so far in Europe. Had successful Tahoe in Parma Italy previous week. But the Padova Promoters turned to be inexperienced, inadequate, unprofessional, unscrupulous and disreputable. On faithful Saturday 29th October 2022, I arrived from Dusseldorf Germany alongside my team at 16:20 at Venice airport (Marco Polo Italy) and waited for over two hours before the so-called promoters came ( blessed entertainment and Alex Jeffizy) they couldn’t even pay the taxi guy the complete fares not until my manager payoff the fares.”

”Up to 50% not until we arrived and they said they don’t have a balance until they sell drinks till 4 am before they can balance us and I can perform by then, we agreed and waited not until Alex and driver came back at 3:40am to pick us to the venue. The driver repeatedly missed the route and we spent over 2h 40mins on the road instead of 50mins. On getting closer to the venue, we discovered there had been shooting, stabbing and arson in the venue. Even Jeffizy himself received a series of calls that we should not come to the venue because there has been a serious massacre and we should back off. No security, bodyguard, or professional.”

“We forced the driver to stop the car before getting to the dangerous scene. Unknowingly for us that they got their thugs around the corner, and they collected the car key and demanded €2,000 which my manager gave to them to enable us to leave the unsafe scene. Jeffizy collected the money and Blessing Olise knows about it. ITALY promoters are not real promoters but scammers and lame people. Prostitutes ladies claiming to be promoters and uncivilized men that took a boat to Europe claiming to be a promoter. I warned every Nigerian artist to abstain from any so-called Nigerian ITALY-based promoters. They are empty.”

watch the video here;

Singer Portable narrowly escapes being kidn@pped and k#lled in Italy, advises his colleagues against dealing with some show promoters

https://t.co/QWZmt1NFSv

— Instablog9ja (@instablog9ja) October 31, 2022