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Portable, the controversial Nigerian street-pop star, has begged for forgiveness after he slapped a pastor who came to preach at his bar.

Recall that the singer had a few days ago caught on camera slapping a pastor.

Following the attack, Portable faced backlash from netizens’ and other preachers who threatened to take action against him for assaulting a man of God.

However, addressing the controversy in a video he shared in the midnight on Monday, the singer attributed his actions to past experience.

While begging God for forgiveness, he explained that he attacked the preacher because he thought he was there to cause him spiritual harm.

“My fans, community issues are different from that of the street. May God forgive me. I didn’t know he was a genuine man of God. If I knew I wouldn’t have slapped him.

“I’m also a child of God. I’m human, I’m not perfect. I am an orphan. They have harmed my sister through this same strategy.”

Gospel singer Testimony Jaga has given controversial artiste Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, an ultimatum of 3 days to apologize to the preacher whom he assaulted.

626Blaze had reported on the assault which took place in front of Portable’s bar. Portable who streamed the incident live on Instagram accused the pastor of driving customers away from his establishment.

Infuriated by the pastor’s presence, the ‘Zazu’ crooner resorted to physical violence, claiming the clergyman was a threat to his business.

Testimony Jaga in response to this, publicly condemned the act in a post shared on his instagram page on Friday.

He captioned his message:

“@portablebaeby I am giving you three days to apologize to that man.”

Jaga further expressed that if the pastor had indeed done something wrong, the proper course of action would have been to involve the authorities, rather than taking matters into his own hands. Jaga said:

“If Portable felt the pastor was doing something wrong, why not call the police or law enforcement to handle the situation? There was no need to slap him,”

“That man is someone’s father and husband. All I ask is for Portable to apologize—to the pastor and his family. If he doesn’t, he might find himself setting an example for why such behavior won’t be tolerated.”

Habeeb Okikiola, the controversial Nigerian musician, who is popularly known as Portable, has revealed that ace rapper and YBNL boss, Olamide, is his godfather in the music industry.

He disclosed this in a recent interview with Echo Room.

Portable said Olamide was criticised for featuring on the remix of his breakthrough song ‘Zazu’ in 2021, but he has now gone international with a feature from British rapper Skepta.

“Olamide is my Godfather. He brought me to the industry. One day, I messaged him and asked if he had issues with me because he stopped posting me.

“When Olamide helped me, people said he made a mistake. Look at me now, I have gone international and Skepta featured me. I’m touring the world,” he said.