Organisers of Headies Awards disqualify Portable

Date 2022-07-26

Category Entertainment, Gist & Gossip

The organisers of Headies Awards 2022 have disqualified singer, Habeeb Okikiola, professionally known as Portable from the list of nominees due to controversy and investigations by the police force after allegedly claiming to be affiliated with criminal group “1 million boy” and Ajeh boys

Portable was nominated to contest in the ‘Rookie of the Year’ and ‘Best Street-Hop Artiste’ categories when The Headies unveiled the nominees for its 2022 edition on Tuesday.

Other nominees e in the ‘Rookie of the Year’ category include Av, Fave, Magixx, and Ugocci.

For the second category, he is pitted against Bella Shmurda, Mohbad, Naira Marley, and Goya Menor among others.

Below is the official statement from the organisers.

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