Jim Iyke Holds Abuja Spell-bound With Album Release

Jim Iyke Jim Iyke proved to all and sundry that he was really a bad boy with a good cause in Abuja, recently, when he presented his album to the public at Thisday Dome.

Iyke, who admitted being a bad boy, showed the audience how bad he could get with his near-perfect delivery and stunt on stage, and how good his cause is with the gift to the Adonai Orphanage in Kaduna, whose sewards were present and the adoption of one of the kids by a compassionate member of the audience, Mr Stanley Anyawu.

The night kicked off on a sluggish note with several up and coming artistes strutting their stuff on stage after Kate Henshaw-Nuttall and Francis Duru, the comperes, came on stage to ease the nerves of the people who had been waiting for a while.

The tempo of the night was upped with Peelola, the actress cum singer, who came on stage performing her hit single, Bamijo, and inviting a little girl on stage to twist and whine to the rhythm of the Afro Pop song. That was followed by Abuja-based comedian, Youngest Oldman, coming on stage.

Youngest, as he is fondly called, finally got the audience out of the shell and AY followed with his brand of comedy which had many people reeling with laughter.

The crowd was put in suspense after Jim was announced as the next act on stage. The announcement was followed by a crowd of dancers who later formed a motionless circle on their knees. Palpable silence followed as Jim was shown on the projector emerging from his customised-Chrysler car with a lady akin to James Bond girl.

He walked in majestically and pulled a stunt when he suddenly appeared from the middle of the motion-less dancers jumping to the fast tempo song of “Born to do this.” He performed two other songs, “Ikenna” and “Bad boy don’t kiss and tell.”

His performance was followed by that of Faze, the Kolomental crooner, after which the Nollywood stars in the house mounted the staged to declare support for one of their own.

The highlight of the night was when 2face Idibia was introduced alongside Jim, again, to perform the hit single, “Who am I?” The collaboration met with thunderous applause and 2face continued from there with his own performance for the night. He had the opportunity of showing the world, again, that the stunt he pulled at Niteshift Coliseum, a week earlier, was not a flash in the pan by not performing to CD.

He had the DJ playing beat while he was free-styling to the instrumental. 2face was simply in the world of his own. The night took a comical bend when 2face invited Stanley Anyawu to the stage, paying homage to him for supporting the industry, and he had to carry one of the little children of the orphanage who had done a stage presentation earlier.

A member of the audience asked if 2face was the father, only for him to reply that he was yet to be told. It was right there he called on more support for the less privileged and showered encomium on Jim for giving the audience the opportunity to take care of the have-not of the society.

I go die and Gandoki rounded off the night, which witnessed huge sum of donations from the likes of Terry Waya and lots of bigwigs in Abuja social circuit. Now, Jim is beginning to do in music what he has been doing in movies––moving the crowd and amazing fans.