Simi has defended herself against backlash over resurfaced tweets, insisting her past comments were misinterpreted and not driven by perversion.
Nigerian singer Simi has criticised Nigerians for resurfacing old social media posts in which she made comments about a four-year-old boy between 2012 and 2015, when she was in her early twenties. Some of the posts, now deleted, sparked outrage online. Reacting on Sunday, the 37-year-old described her critics as a “faceless mob” attempting to twist her past remarks.
“I was not famous, so maybe if I was, I would have understood that anything is open to whatever interpretation, including being used falsely by a faceless mob,” she said. Simi maintained that her tweets reflected playful interactions while assisting at her mother’s daycare and insisted, “Nothing I tweeted was from perversion,” adding that she has consistently spoken against rape and sexual assault.