Davido has revealed he paid around £55,000 to O2 Arena management to extend his concert time.
The superstar singer made the revelation during his media chat with Hot 97 FM’s Oldman Ebro in the U.S. recently.
Davido said the hall was half-empty at the time he was about to perform.
He further explained that he was under pressure from the management of the arena to hit the stage, even without the hall being filled up to capacity.
“I was scared though, because first of all, you know how we Africans do, we’re always late, we take time,” Davido explained in the interview.
“They said I gotta get on stage by 8, and I said alright and then by 8 o’clock my boy come tell me that brother you can’t go on stage right now and I say what you mean, he said brother everybody is still walking around, I looked at the stadium, half empty. I was going crazy.”
Davido said he decided not to ahead with performance because a lot of people wanted him to fail and if he did so, he would be giving them the chance to spread negativity about his work.
“They said i’d have to pay £55,000 for time extension and i said I’ll pay two hundred thousand pounds in this place. Me, the way I know my people, people want me to fail. If I go on that stage that place is half empty, somebody will take that picture and that picture will go farther than anything. I waited till that place was filled.
I waited for about an hour and thirty before we started. I’d rather pay the fine because people don’t want you to win. Negativity goes way farther than positivity.”