2Baba Speaks on Beef with John Obi Mikel

By Nuel Nonny | 25th January 2016

Innocent Ujah Idibia popularly referred to as 2face or 2baba has come out to the public about his alleged beef with Chelsea and Super Eagles star, John Mikel Obi who supposedly snubbed Nigerian music icon at a London nightclub years back.

It was generally believed that the incident was what prompted the singer to record the hit track Only Me.

2Baba, in a recent interview with Brila FM while promoting his new single quashed the rumours of such an incident ever taking place and insisted that the song was never a diss track nor about Mikel.

“I met John Obi Mikel for the first time at the MOBO awards two years before I released the song ‘Only me’, I won an award on the night, Mikel congratulated me and alongside P Square, D’Banj and Don Jazzy we all went to hang out together,” the one time MTV EMA winner told the sports radio station.

2Baba also revealed that when he heard about the rumours at that time, he put a call through to the midfield maestro and they ended up having a laugh over the rumours.

He said: “At the time I did the song, Mikel had issues with his inability to show up for certain Super Eagles games, then some very good rumour monger picked a line from my song as regards patriotism towards representing the National football team and ran with the story of a rift between us, I spoke with Mikel on the phone and we had a good laugh about it.”