Simi addresses resurfaced 2012 tweets, says posts were taken out of context
Nigerian singer Simisola Kosoko, popularly known as Simi, has reacted to backlash over some of her old tweets from 2012 that recently resurfaced online, insisting the posts were harmless and are now being twisted out of context. The controversy erupted after she spoke strongly against rape in reaction to a viral TikTok case, prompting some users to dig up her decade old tweets and accuse her of hypocrisy. In a detailed statement shared on social media, Simi explained that the tweets in question were made when she was 23, living with her mother and helping out at her mum’s daycare while still hustling to build her music career. She said she used Twitter then like a diary, tweeting “everything that happened” around her, including funny or cute moments involving the children at the daycare. According to Simi, the posts being […]