There was no violence at Mayorkun’s Ibadan concert – Organisers

However, the production team in a chat with Punch denied knowledge of any violent outbursts or attacks. They said: “The Mayorkun’s Concert was widely acclaimed by attendees as the best music concert to be held in the city of Ibadan, was very well managed with experienced security officials in place, despite the over 13,000 people in attendance. We will like to disassociate ourselves from news going round of violence against some persons as no such thing happened at the event. It was a free and fair event.

“Adequate securities were made for all media houses and journalists with access tags at the event, and no violence was experienced by any journalist or pressman at the event.
The all access tags were given only to authorized journalists and photographers. This is part of the security procedures that were put in place to prevent unauthorized access by impostors.

“Although there were false reports by some blogs that alleged that a reporter was manhandled by security operatives. The reporter who was allegedly drunk attempted to forcibly gain entrance into the artistes’ green room without authorized access and was prevented by security operatives. The report by the aggrieved reporter is a calculated attempt to bring the event into disrepute. This isolated event is not representative of the concert event which otherwise was very peaceful and violence free.”