Controversial comedian, Aderombi Adedayo, best known as DeeOne, has attributed Nigeria's bad image to singer, Olu Maintain.

DeeOne, while speaking during a recent episode of the Echo Room podcast, stated that 419 wasn't being bragged about before until Olu Maintain released the song ‘Yahooze.'

According to him, the impact of that song dented Nigeria's image on the global stage, as many individuals became confident in boasting about fraud.

He said:
"Do you know that Olu Maintain, great artiste. I love his work but do you know that Olu Maintain is among the people that put this country in a bad light, gave us a bad name?

“Many years ago in Nigeria, Yahoo Yahoo – 419 was something that everybody that was involved in it was ashamed. They could not come out to say I’m a 419. Na you go dey tell person say this guy ee be like say na 419. It was a shameful thing even though they were making a lot of money. And then, Olu Maintain came with that hit (song) ‘Yahoo.'