By Jimmy
Nigerian Singer, Ikuforiji Olaitan, popularly known as Oxlade, has revealed that he dropped out of the university in his final year because of cult members who were persuading him to join them.
Oxlade’s father was a lecturer at Lagos State University, where he gained admission to study History and International Relations. He enrolled for two years before dropping off to pursue his musical career.
However, the singer recently revealed that music was not the main reason for him abandoning school.
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During a podcast conversation with Tea with Tay, Oxlade disclosed that when he left school, cultists went after his friends and left them brutally wounded
Up until he had to leave school because of cult members, he stated that he was continuously reading his books and studying his Bible.
“During my university days, I was always in the church reading Bible and books. Then I dropped out in my final year. I’ve never said this before. I dropped out when some boys were trying to make me join gang,” he said.
Oxlade claimed that the cultists were persistent in their efforts to get him to join them.
He continued by saying that God had intervened just in time for him because the cult members had gone looking for him in his hostel not long after his grandmother had begged him to return home.
When they were unable to locate him, they pounced on his friends and injured them critically.
“One day, my grandma called me asking where I was. I said I was on campus and she said I should start coming to our family home in Ibadan. I went to Ibadan. That day, those boys almost killed my roommates. I don’t know how my grandma knew, she just told me to come to Ibadan, that I shouldn’t go and pack anything from the hostel, so I was there for a week. So the next few days my roommates said that they came to beat the shit out of them because of me.”
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“That’s why I appreciate my grandma’s importance in my life. Forget all these things say we dey whyne, God dey, truly, there’s God. And I’m saying this with my full chest, God has saved me countless times. That’s why I could come back twice as tall, just as Burna Boy called it” he added.
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— 🐬 @𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗷𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗯𝗼𝘆 (@OneJoblessBoy) October 7, 2023
– Oxlade pic.twitter.com/pnOvMtJ00N
