Afrobeats star, BNXN, has denied spitting in the face of a policeman during an altercation in Lagos State on Wednesday.
This is coming hours after the Lagos State Police Command threatened to charge the singer with assault if found guilty.
A video of the singer’s encounter with police had gone viral on social media and he later come online to say that he spat in the face of police in a now-deleted tweet.
Making a U-turn on Thursday, the singer said the phrase was used in an idiomatic sense not literally.
He tweeted, “My since-deleted tweet stating that I spat in a police officers face was an idiomatic expression to say I disrespected a police officer to his face and not the literal way people may have taken it on social media. I do not support violence or abuse against the police in any form.
“Yesterday, I was in a life-threatening situation which caused me to lash out due to the physical assault on me by some policemen who have now been brought to book. I stood on my right as a responsible Nigerian, despite the violence against my person and I do not want my deleted tweet to be taken seriously.”
