Veteran singer and former member of The Remedies, Eddy Remedy has said contrary to his ex-bandmate, Eedris Abdulkareem’s claims, he was the sole founder of the now-defunct band.
Remember that in a previous podcast interview, Abdulkareem asserted that he and Eddy were The Remedies’ founding members and that Tony Tetuila was only added to the group out of sympathy after they met at a performance in Ilorin, Kwara State.
But according to Eddy Remedy, who recently spoke with Daddy Freeze, Tetuila met Abdulkareem at his Lagos flat rather than in Ilorin, where Tetuila joined the gang.
He claimed to have persuaded Abdulkareem to join the group, and when Tetuila accompanied him, he subsequently found out that Abdulkareem had taken money from his parents under the pretence of turning their son into a celebrity.
The legendary singer claimed that back then, there were rumours spreading due to Abdulkareem’s greed, despite the fact that he was the group’s only sponsor and Tetuila’s parents were not.
Remedy said, “That boy (Eedris Abdulkareem) is a greedy boy. He has always been greedy. I formed the group and invited him into the group. The day he was coming, he brought Tony [Tetuila]. I had never met Tony in my life. I just saw a guy limping behind him.
“When they got into my room, I asked him, ‘Who is this man?’ He now introduced Tony that he has been with him all these while. That was when Eedris was supposed to tell me that Tony’s parents have given him some money and he told them that he will take him to wherever he is going. He didn’t tell me that. The rumours first started when we were on tour that Tony’s parents were sponsoring the group. No, they were not sponsoring the group. I had $5,000 that my parents sent to me from America in 1997. They sent me that money to come and meet them but I insisted that I was to stay back in Nigeria to pursue my music career after graduating from Yaba Tech. I used that money to sponsored the group throughout that period.”
“This can be very heartbreaking… That boy (Eedris) is a greedy boy. He has always been greedy. I formed the group and invited him into the group”
– Eddy Remedy pic.twitter.com/J86r2VdXc6
— 🐬 @𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗷𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗯𝗼𝘆 (@OneJoblessBoy) February 21, 2024
