Nedu Wazobia, the on-air personality (OAP), has broken his silence on why he left ‘The Honest Bunch’ podcast.
Nedu stepped down from the podcast in February 2025 amid
controversy over allegations made during one of its episodes.
The controversy began after comedian DeeOne alleged on the
podcast that Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), had
intimate relationships with men.
VDM responded by accusing Nedu of orchestrating the
allegations, leaking private conversations between them, and engaging in sexual
exploitation. He was replaced by Daddy Freeze.
In a recent video shared on X, Nedu said the controversy was
not the primary reason he left the podcast. Instead, he attributed his exit to
an ownership dispute with the podcast’s handlers.
“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.'”
Nedu said that although there was no written contract, they
reached a verbal agreement to split the podcast’s proceeds equally. But he
eventually discovered the podcast was registered as property solely owned by
the other party.
“I had the idea, and 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.
“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.”Nedu Wazobia: Why I left ‘The Honest Bunch’ podcast
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