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Much Ado About Tiwa Savage’s Sex Tape

October 17, (THEWILL) – About a week ago, Tiwa Savage went to town with a story about being blackmailed with a sex tape she made with her current lover. While absolving her closest friends or associates of blame, the divorced mother of one revealed that her lover mistakenly posted the video on the social media platform, Snapchat, but deleted it within seconds. The singer also said that the blackmailer sent the sex video to her team, demanding money. After trying to initially stall the blackmailer, she claimed, she decided to simply own her narrative, since they are both grown-ups who aren’t cheating on each other.

Her revelation expectedly drew mixed reactions from Nigerians. While some felt that she was lying, others wondered how someone, who referred to herself as a grown-up woman, a mother and a role model could make a sex tape and publicise it, even if it was just for one second.

This set of people pointed out that during the interview where she made the revelation, her countenance was far from that of a person under pressure from a blackmailer. So they concluded that she was playing on people’s intelligence with what they believed was a publicity stunt.

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Some other people, who are sympathetic to the Tiwa Savage brand, either believed her or were at a loss as to what to make of the story. Still, many were more interested in the identity of the supposed lover, since her well- known lover, Habeeb Uthman, otherwise known as Obama DMW, who was a personal assistant to singer Davido, had died of heart failure about three months ago.

A few others took advantage of the situation by circulating a sex video of a lady who many believe is Tiwa.

First, the video in circulation is as fake as they come because the actors look nothing like Tiwa and her current lover, who is a young man named Abolo Beckham.

Bolo Beckham of Warri, as he is fondly called, is a Nigerian who lives in Ghana. Tiwa allegedly began to date him almost immediately after Obama DMW’s demise. While the male in the video in circulation is quite slim and of average height, Bolo isn’t slim and he is much taller. The lady in the video only has a slight resemblance to Tiwa and that is where it stops. She is voluptuous, while Tiwa isn’t.

Secondly, Bolo is currently not on social media. He deleted all of his social media handles, specifically Instagram and Snapchat about three years ago, save for a few footprints which are old posts made of him by others. This makes one wonder which snapchat Tiwa claimed her lover posted the said video on and deleted almost immediately.

Third, Tiwa’s latest body of work, Water and Garri, which was released in August, isn’t doing as well as anticipated. Except for the single, Somebody’s Son, in which she featured American artist, Brandy, many can’t even tell off-hand the other songs in the Extended Play (EP). Also, having allegedly collected her signup fee upfront when she signed a global recording deal with Universal Music Group (UMG), the world leader in music-based entertainment, Tiwa needed to prove that she has what it takes to compete favourably with American music icons and that UMG didn’t make a mistake going into partnership with her. Her management/publicity team headed by Vanessa Amadi-Ogbonna, who also manages some Nigerian music artists like Davido and is supposedly a guru at her job, came up with the publicity stunt of a non-existing sex tape.

The whole idea, which was obviously meant to sway public sympathy in Tiwa’s favour and help to boost the sales of her EP, unfortunately backfired as Nigerians didn’t believe her tale.

Finally, assuming there is actually an existing sex tape, why isn’t it out there? Why hasn’t the blackmailer released it yet? While Tiwa didn’t give a timeline for when the sex tape was made or when the blackmail began, blackmailers have been known never to back down and would carry out their threats unless the long arm of the law catches up with them before they carry out their threat.

So did Tiwa actually make a sex tape? If she did, which is her prerogative, did she or her lover really put it out there by mistake? And is she really being blackmailed for it? Your guess is as good as mine.

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