On-air personality, Nedu Wazobia, has spoken out on the circumstances surrounding his departure from The Honest Bunch podcast.
He exited the show in February 2025 following controversy triggered by allegations made during one of its episodes.
The dispute began after comedian DeeOne claimed on the podcast that Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), had been involved in sexual relationships with men.
Prompt News reports VDM later reacted by accusing Nedu of being behind the claims, releasing alleged private chats between them and also accusing him of sexual exploitation. Daddy Freeze was subsequently brought in as his replacement.
However, in a video shared on X, Nedu insisted that the public controversy was not the real reason for his exit, stating that an ownership disagreement played a bigger role.
“Pretty much every Nigerian thought I left because of what happened that last year but that wasn’t why I left. Now, I started ‘Honest Bunch’, it wasn’t called the Honest Bunch. When I started the podcast, I was on radio. I needed an outlet where I could talk and say my mind,” he said.
“So I went to a person that was running the place. I called him, and we agreed to meet in a particular place. So the day I was going, the guy that was working with me then, Chudy I told him to come with me. And there is another guy, Austin. So we went there together. We sat down and told him to this is my idea and this what I want. He said, ‘Okay, how do we do it. I said ‘how it is going to work is you have a production house, the cameras, the team, my own is just to sit down and talk.’”
He explained that although there was no written agreement, both parties allegedly agreed to a 50-50 revenue split.
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“So I said, ‘Okay, let’s do it 50/50.’ So we shook hands. Anything that comes in, I take 50 percent and you keep 50 percent. It was a gentleman’s agreement. That was where I made the mistake,” he said.
According to him, he later discovered that the podcast had been registered solely under the other party’s ownership.
“I brought everything together. I came with the people, they handled production, cutting of the teasers. It was posted on their platform, that was not a problem for me. I just felt ‘na my person be this’, let go ahead and do this.
“We started going on, when they were dragging me like tiger generator for something that I know 150% innocent off wey some people wey dey around there know everything. I’m not going to mention names. They said something ‘Nedu, we are going to put out a statement that we are suspending you from the show.
“In my head, I am like so what now? Show wey I get? you dey craze? You dey give landlord ‘quick notice’? The next day, they now did search at CAC, know found out that when they were registering the honest bunch, they registered it as hundred percent their product. I didn’t want to leave. I was going to wait for it to die down but when I now saw that it was hundred percent their product, I’m like no. na him be say I know fit.”
