Controversial veteran singer and social media activist, Charles Oputa, best known as Charly Boy, has talked down on the renaming of the National Theatre after Wole Soyinka.

The veteran singer has been using his online presence to criticize President Tinunbu's administration for a while now and the decision by the president to rename the National Arts Theatre in Iganmu, Lagos after Wole Soyinka in commeration of his 90th birthday has not sat down well with Charly Boy.

He took to X to bemoan that he no longer has respect for Wole Soyinka, citing how he accepted material recognition amidst the hardship.

He wrote;
“Uncle WOLE I henceforth withdraw all the respect I once had for you.

“When late Jimmyjohnson talked about you in the 90s, I thought he was only yabbing you.

“Wow! How some of our MIGHTYs have fallen, for beans, ewa, dodo, is it for rice’?