• Davido appears to have thrown his weight behind talent manager Paulo Okoye amid the latter’s beef with VeryDarkMan.
• The music star, in an old video shared by Paulo, confirmed the talent manager helped secure his first 10 million deal.
• Davido’s elder brother, Adewale Adeleke, also shared more details about the deal.

Music star David Adeleke Davido has reacted to a video shared by Paulo Okoye in which he revealed how the talent manager helped him secure his first N10 million deal despite having only one song, Dami Duro, at the time.

Paulo shared the video amid his viral beef with controversial activist Verydarkman.

Paulo had sent a message to Davido, Cubana Chiefpriest and others to pick sides, that is, between him and Verydarkman.

Sharing an old video of him with Davido who recently got hitched to his lover, Paulo wrote:

“Is all about hardwork !!! Respect!!! Then Davido have on One song !!! Duro!! I fight for that job for him !! The company say no to me 6x I come back fighting before they say Yes it is well !!! !!! I’m not born with golden spoon is just hard work.”

The singer, who appears to have thrown his weight behind Paulo, simply wrote in the comment “fact”.

Sharing more details about the deal, Davido’s elder brother Adewale Adeleke, better known as Chairman HKN, wrote: “Yep our first endorsement, MTN was done by you sir @pauloo2104. You forever played a major role in David’s story! God bless you.”

See Paulo’s post and reactions to it below:

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A post shared by Paulo Okoye (@pauloo2104)

marvelvill wrote: I feel so bad that you’re trying to explain yourself, that kid is not worth it, you’re a legend, paved ways before afrobeats became cool to identify with, before anyone started billing in USD you had events and put so many people on… Please ignore the child. He would fade with time, the always do, it’s a reoccurring pattern, seen it happen over and over again… Your legacy can not fade overnight. Would always be written in caps in the African industry.

mclordellofficial wrote: Dear Mr Paulo… I guess you have not accepted your position as a LEGEND in the ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY in both NIGERIA and AFICA and that’s why u waste so so much ENERGY trying to explain your ACHIEVEMENTS, even with EVIDENCE! TakeNote: We know wat you have DONE for AFRICA so you don need to …. thank You

ubifranklinofficial wrote: Paulo no small. BIG P

adakarl1 wrote: Boss na Boss! Dt yr…. we first met thru 2Face, I told you that I am your Nwadiana & you asked Nwadi whats ur fave drink & I said Champagne & u popped it just for me

_timini wrote: Odogwu! Thanks for all you’ve done boss man!

iamdrrommel wrote: The world knows about your legacy No shaking uncle P