Nedu Opens Up: Real reason I quit ‘The Honest Bunch’ podcast

Popular on-air personality, Nedu Wazobia, has revealed why he walked away from The Honest Bunch podcast.

Nedu said many Nigerians believed he left the show because of the controversy involving social media critic Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, but insisted that was not the real reason.

The broadcaster stepped down from the podcast in February 2025 after a heated controversy erupted from one of the show’s episodes.

The drama began after comedian DeeOne alleged on the podcast that VeryDarkMan had been involved in intimate relationships with men.

VeryDarkMan fired back, accusing Nedu of plotting the allegation, leaking private conversations, and engaging in sexual exploitation.

Nedu was later replaced on the podcast by Daddy Freeze.

But speaking in a recent video shared on X, Nedu said his exit had more to do with a dispute over ownership of the podcast than the public controversy.

According to him, he was the one who came up with the idea for the show when he was still working on radio and needed a platform where he could freely express himself.

He said he approached a production outfit with the idea and went to the meeting with two others, Chudy and Austin.

Nedu said the understanding was simple: the production team would provide the cameras, crew and technical support, while he would sit, talk and drive the show.

He added that they agreed verbally to share proceeds from the podcast on a 50-50 basis.

“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.

Nedu said trouble started when the controversy around him became intense and the podcast handlers allegedly informed him that they wanted to issue a statement suspending him from the show.

He said he was shocked because, according to him, the show was his idea.

“In my head, I am like, so what now? Show wey I get? You dey craze? You dey give landlord quick notice?” he said.

The broadcaster said the situation forced him to conduct a search at the Corporate Affairs Commission, where he allegedly discovered that *The Honest Bunch* had been registered as a product fully owned by the other party.

He said that discovery changed everything.

Nedu explained that he initially did not plan to leave the podcast and only wanted to wait for the controversy to die down.

However, he said he decided to walk away after finding out that the podcast had allegedly been registered without reflecting the 50-50 agreement he believed they had.

“I didn’t want to leave. I was going to wait for it to die down. But when I now saw that it was 100 percent their product, I’m like no. Na him be say I no fit,” he said.

Nedu’s revelation has reopened conversations around verbal business agreements, content ownership, and how creative partnerships are structured in Nigeria’s fast-growing podcast industry.