Bovi Ugboma, a Nigerian comedian, recently revealed in an interview with media personality Chude that he has ended his friendship with senior colleague Basketmouth because he wants to build his brand and focus on himself.
While he and Basketmouth are still cool, Bovi emphasized that their energy had shifted into new phases, and that he needed to prioritize his own happiness. The interview included a quote from Bovi stating his opinion that there is a limit to how much people can push you before you need to stand up and make more strides.
He stressed that priorities changed as they grew every day and right now he wants to be happy and do the things that make him happy.
In his words;
“You know but there was this friendship, this symbiotic friendship but he was more visible because he’s a brand, you put Basketmouth’s name on anything and it’s going. So I think, over the years, my mission was to become a brand as well, a big one and there’s a stage where brands grow to and the room becomes too small, you’ll have to basically find your way, that now allows room for more people to come on board. I decided, you know what, it’s time to grow your brand and focus on you now. So I’ll take responsibility for my own decision. We are human beings, there will always be skirmishes, I mean, it’s also part of pop culture. We were young and restless and stuff like that. So I just realize that like I said earlier, the biggest service you can do for yourself is to push yourself. If you wait for somebody to say, ‘come let me take you’, you might wait forever. I’m not saying that doesn’t happen but there’s also a limit to how far certain people can take you. You have to get up and move to break new grounds.”
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