The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has reportedly hosted popular musician, John Odafe Asimoh, popularly known as Daddy Showkey in the Headquarters of the Corporation in Lagos after the singer criticised the Corporation for poor handling of the Warri-Itakpe route on his Facebook page.
In a recent Facebook post, seen/viewed by Transport Day Media, the musician was watched entertaining the passengers when the train on that route was said to have stopped abruptly without any explanation to the passengers.
He wrote on his Facebook page that “I took a train ride from Warri going Agenegbode the experience was not so good but I made the passengers in the train Happy in my own little way, I have never experience this type of train ride before, the stop at Agbor for One full hour in a middle of nowhere without no information from about what was going or wrong with the train 🚆 Oh my God for not to let the people feel bored I started thrilling and making them happy in my own little way”
In a post on X, the NRC quoted its Managing Director, Dr. Kayode Opeifa assuring Daddy Showkey that the provision of passenger coaches and wagons is a top priority of his management team.
According to the NRC post, “@DrOpeifaKayode invited reggae artiste John Odafe Asimoh, popularly called Daddy Showkey to the Corporation’s headquarters to brief the management on his recent experience on the Warri-Itakpe Train Service where he had to be entertaining the passengers while the train had a short delay while fueling.”
The MD thanked Daddy Showkey for converting an issue into an opportunity, assured that the management is doing all it can to ensure hitch-free train operations that would attract Nigerians’ patronage.
Responding, Daddy Showkey said that though his invitation to meet with the management of the corporation was a pleasant surprise, he was not entirely surprised as it reaffirmed his conviction that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu made the right choice in appointing Dr Kayode Opeifa as the Managing Director of the corporation.
