Nedu Wazobia, a well-known on-air personality, opened up on the reason he started ‘The Honest Bunch’ podcast. Nedu left the podcast in February 2025 after controversy over allegations made in one of the episodes.
The controversy started when comedian DeeOne claimed on the podcast that Martins Vincent Otse, also known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), had intimate relationships with men.
VDM replied by accusing Nedu of planning the allegations, leaking their private conversations, and being involved in sexual exploitation. Afterwards, Daddy Freeze took Nedu’s place on the podcast.
In a recent video posted on X, Nedu explained that the controversy was not the main reason he left. He said he left because of a disagreement over who owned the podcast.
“Pretty much every Nigerian thought I left because of what happened that last year but that wasn’t why I left. Now, I started ‘Honest Bunch’, it wasn’t called the Honest Bunch. When I started the podcast, I was on radio. I needed an outlet where I could talk and say my mind,” he said.
“So I went to a person that was running the place. I called him, and we agreed to meet in a particular place. So the day I was going, the guy that was working with me then, Chudy I told him to come with me. And there is another guy, Austin. So we went there together. We sat down and told him to this is my idea and this what I want. He said, ‘Okay, how do we do it. I said ‘how it is going to work is you have a production house, the cameras, the team, my own is just to sit down and talk.’”
Nedu said there was no written contract, but they agreed verbally to share the podcast’s earnings equally. Later, he found out that the podcast was registered only in the other party’s name.
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“I had the idea, and I said, ‘Okay, let’s do it 50/50.’ So we shook hands. Anything that comes in, I take 50 percent and you keep 50 percent. It was a gentleman’s agreement. That was where I made the mistake,” he said.
“I brought everything together. I came with the people, they handled production, cutting of the teasers. It was posted on their platform, that was not a problem for me. I just felt ‘na my person be this’, let go ahead and do this.
“We started going on, when they were dragging me like tiger generator for something that I know 150% innocent off wey some people wey dey around there know everything. I’m not going to mention names. They said something ‘Nedu, we are going to put out a statement that we are suspending you from the show.
“In my head, I am like so what now? Show wey I get? you dey craze? You dey give landlord ‘quick notice’? The next day, they now did search at CAC, know found out that when they were registering the honest bunch, they registered it as hundred percent their product. I didn’t want to leave. I was going to wait for it to die down but when I now saw that it was hundred percent their product, I’m like no. na him be say I know fit.”Nedu Wazobia: Why I left ‘The Honest Bunch’ podcast
