Former Super Eagles player, Osazie Odemwingie, has apologized to singer Peter Okoye after they had a dirty fight on social media yesterday.

Odemwingie had accused the singer and his gambling business of broad daylight robbery.

He also slammed him for encouraging a dance challenge which requires participants to break bottles on their head.

“What happened to you @PeterPsquare? you are robbing people in broad daylight with that your nonsense business and now you want to take Christmas from them? You no dey fear God at all?,” Odemwingie wrote.

In his response, Peter Okoye slammed Odemwingie whom he says looks sick and needs help.

He wrote, “Bro I tried to ignore, but I am so disappointed in you! If you are now close to God does not make you feel others are close to the devil! I own a registered and licensed lottery platform just like every other individual does both here and abroad. But coming to spill this rubbish just because you feel you are now closer to God! Bro my music never brought you close to this your God in particular! Bro you have been Brainwashed Period! You look sick and you need help? Learn to mind your business and focus on that your God and your life! DISAPPOINTED.”

Both stars have now settled after Odemwingie issued an apology in which he revealed that he never intended to attack Peter Okoye’s business.

He said, “I didn’t mean no offence, to be honest. As you offered to pray for me feeling like things aren’t right with me, I thought I will do the favour back because what you sow is what you reap. You pray for me and I pray for you. 

“When I watched your video about the guy that took his mum’s last N500 to gamble, what you are doing is that you are encouraging gambling. Some people win, some people loose. So he went into tears saying his mother is ill, she has cancer, she is on chemotherapy and you asked him why was he crying and he said because he took his mum’s last N500 to buy a ticket. Luckily he won but I believe there are some guys who didn’t win on that day and possibly took their dad’s or mum’s or friend’s last money feeling like they would win because gambling is an addiction. 

“In that situation, I am not condemning your business completely but in that situation, I think what you should have said to him was that he is lucky today but he shouldn’t do that again because if he didn’t win, that means they might not have a meal that day or the next day and that is stealing because you have to ask your mother to take her last money to go gamble. I believe some people borrow money to do these things and when they are in debt, they end up getting arrested, they get beaten up and all that.

“So that was my worry really. If he took his mum’s last N500, you should have rebuked him as a brother. Most of my friends are footballers. They all are into gambling but it is a big issue here. People commit suicide because of gambling. It is an addiction. I am not condemning people that are doing it but if you can control it, that is another thing.”

On the controversial dance challenge, he said, ”When I saw the video you put out encouraging people as they break bottles on their head and dancing,  I asked you if these were your sons, will you encourage them  to do that? So this is how our Christmas should be in Nigeria now? Guys breaking bottles on their heads and dancing like crazy. I am just saying my opinion. I don’t think it is right. Maybe once a year you want to go mad, maybe you go to somewhere and do that but not to bring that kind of thinking into Christmas because it is family time, a nice time. So apologies if I offended you in any way.”

Accepting the apology, Peter Okoye shared a picture of both of them together.

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