Nigerian famous musician, Abbey Toyyib Elias , popularly known as Skiibii, has revealed about the renowned scandal. In 2015, the music industry was thrown into pandemonium when news broke about his ‘death’.
“What was that issue and how did you deal with it?”, Skibii was asked, he replied, “I have that issue for real, I dey blackout. I don’t like to talk about this p, everybody can say what they want to say.”
He then disclosed the different occasions on which he had blacked out. Twice on a plane on the way to South Africa. The second occurred while at Nigerian artiste Kcee’s home.
The scandal, however, took place in the Surulere area of Lagos state after that the musician slumped at his brother’s home where he was assumed to be dead.
He had to receive treatment in the US for his aliment. During his recovery, he saw that social media was circulating the news of his death and ‘RIP’ posts from fans and fellow colleagues.
“I still remember Wizkids caption, ‘All he wanted was to be happy”.
“They didn’t want me to check my phone, and when I did I was just crying, I was going through life and people were bashing me”, the singer said.
