Singer and crew nearly killed by armed robbers on his way to concert

ayodele johnson

October 7, 2018 11:56 AM

A singer experienced a near-death experience when travelling by road to a concert in Benin City. He decided he didn't want to disappoint his fans when his flight got cancelled due to bad weather.

Victor AD had a close experience with death when he and his crew met with armed robbers on a highway.

A singer, Victor AD is thanking God for life after a close shave with death. While travelling with his crew to a concert in Benin City he was stopped by

This incident happened on Friday, October 5, 2018, when he had just touched down at Shagamu from Lagos. The singer had opted for a road trip following the cancellation of his flight to Benin due to bad weather.

His hype man whose wife had just delivered twins was unfortunately taken and made to transfer an undisclosed amount of money to the thieves. They reportedly provided him with a POS machine.

The singer shared his experiences on IG a day after the robbery incident.

Who is Victor AD?

He attended the Auchi Polytechnic in Delta State where he studied Electrical Engineering. He launched his career by doing a pidgin covers of popular foreign songs.

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From performing covers in pidgin to dropping a single, it has been a steady rise for Victor AD in his music career. ece-auto-gen

Before this he had tried out as a rapper but nothing tangible came out of the venture.

''In 2008 when I was at AuchiPolytechnic, that was when I decided to start taking music seriously, I started as a rapper but it didn't work for me, so I joined a live band and I started doing pidgin music covers to western songs, which made people notice me.

"When I was performing a cover for 's 'All of you', then my departmental Dean was actually crying and on stage, he gave me money to record my first song, that was how it all started," Victor AD tells Pulse during an interview in September.

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