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Says emotional blackmail can’t displace truth

By Henry Ojelu

The Chief Executive Officer of EeZee Conceptz, Ezekiel Onyedikachi popularly known as EeZeeTee has dispelled what he described as a deliberate attempt by gospel music artist Mercy Chinwo to destroy his record label with lies and emotional blackmail saying that no real child of God destroys another with lies.

In a video shared on multiple media platforms on Tuesday, Mercy Chinwo accused EeZeeTee of threatening to destroy her career and subject her to servitude during her period with his label.

Reacting to some of the allegations made by Chinwo, EeZeeTee stated that it was sad that someone who claims to be a child of God and also a gospel artist would descend so low as to want to destroy another person with lies.

He said: “It’s heartbreaking that you can go to this extent to tarnish the credibility or tarnish the image of someone. You had promised that you would destroy my reputation and the organization. Well done.
When you’re done achieving it, I hope you get a crown in heaven.

“I mean, all of those extreme words, extreme usage of words just to make it look like, I mean, it is stupidity for us not to allow you go for an event because every time you go for a meeting and you’re blessed, we share in that blessing.

“How would we sabotage our investment? We need to be a little more intelligent with the narratives we’re presenting. We do not, in the desperation to damage the reputation of someone, begin to now put ourselves in a critical light, especially to those who are very logical in reasoning and can pull one or two.

“The question is this, are we going to carry strife in our hearts, bitterness in our hearts, resentment in our hearts and go everywhere, you know, acting like we’re doing ministry and kingdom?

” How does it feel to think that because I’m portraying and pushing out, you know, reconciliation and peace, it means that I am weak? What would you say to someone whom you say is more like a boss, more like a father to you, that you have now got contact, you deal with me?

“God has helped us with this office and we’re privileged to come in here neither by association nor by marriage. This is God’s calling and anybody who says, I will deal with you and I will kill you, is not contending with me but with God who has called me. Same with her. I can never boast to say, ‘I made you, I’ll kill you,’ I didn’t make you.

“I was privileged to have housed the platform where you found expression and this cannot be discredited. Let me ask you a question. What is the profit or crown given to a child of God who sees another one go down? It is not what anyone should be proud of.

“I think that we are at the point where we should be truthful and sincere. There is a consistency of lies and pretence. What do you expect of someone who can perfectly imitate the voice of a child and it sounds so real like she’s a child? She’s a fantastic actress.

‘Keep acting, keep crying. They pray with these songs a lot. So they can’t believe that somebody who is singing worship to God can lie.

“We understand all of that. But the truth is constant. No matter how far lies run, it takes just one truth to catch up with it.

“This is an attack on the body of Christ. Only a stupid person would by their hand destroy what God has helped them to be.”

***The Real Issue

EeZeeTee further stated the real issue between him and Mercy Chinwo was about reconciling their accounts which he had made several attempts to resolve even through some respectable men of God but that his peaceful gestures were misconstrued as weakness and sign of guilt.

He said: “For more than two years, there’s been quite a lot of challenges and disputes behind the scenes. I had not felt or seen the need to come out to discredit any of my artists. I feel it’s stupid to put down your products. It doesn’t make any sense.

“Why would you want to sabotage your investment? Only stupid people will destroy what God has used them to build. But when it got to a point where it became a gross dimension of intimidation, my life being at risk, still for the love of the body of Christ, I made efforts to see how this would be resolved.

” I met a pastor of mine who is Apostle Eugene Ogwu. I was a baby drummer from his church, Abundant Life Evangelical Mission in Port Harcourt, regarding this matter. We had a meeting with Mommy Ezekiel, the wife of our father, Christian Pentecostal Mission, regarding this matter.

“I was privileged to meet Bishop Humphrey Erumaka regarding this matter. I also went to meet Bishop Mike Okonkwo, our big daddy, regarding this.

“But what did I hear? He’s running everywhere to meet these people. Now he’s very scared. What is he scared of? Why is he running around? And I’m like, well, the Bible says we should follow peace with all men.

“This is a prescription of the scripture. Let us deal with these issues internally. It makes no sense that we would choose to wash our dirty linen outside.

“But every time I put forward my approach towards a peaceful resolution, it was communicated like weakness. It looked like this guy was a weak person. Until I heard a statement that made me sad.

When one of the pastors said to me, stop bothering about the body of Christ. We will deal with you and the body of Christ will be okay. Then I knew that it was a scripted, orchestrated conspiracy and witch-hunting.

“I don’t have issues with people wanting to open their labels. I mean, we have thousands of talents all over within the Christian space. But you need not put one down for yours to go up.”

On the allegation that he was the person who first took the matter to court, EeZeeTee said: ” Around March, all my accounts were frozen.
I couldn’t trace where it was coming from. Until somehow, I got confidential information that it was a few sets of persons who were doing this. They didn’t want the public to know. Because it had been planned to look like the law enforcement agencies were investigating on their own.

“That was kept private. They tried to cover it, but it was revealed. This is a document that shows the petition that was written.

“I mean, she has come out to say that I went to court first. It beats my imagination how one would deny a document, deny her signature on every page of the document, and also deny the living witnesses to the execution of that document. This person we’re talking about is someone who is a fantastic actress. She has a lot of strength with, you know, portraying a victim personality to the world.

“Talent is beautiful, but talent is not enough. How do you say I took you to court? When did the court come in? The dates are there. So look at the dates when the petition was written.

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