I am not a vain artiste; I didn’t buy a Rolls Royce – Duncan Mighty

The last one week has seen fans and followers of Port Harcourt ‘First Son’ and music star, Duncan Mighty, gasping and screaming in ecstasy and excitement.

One of their own has not just successfully made it out of the Ghetto, but has also consolidated his phenomenal rise in music with a Rolls Royce Phantom valued at N47million.

It also comes with a personalised number plate; PH 1st Son. The news was (still is) celebrated by the media and a few unsuspecting industry stakeholders. 

Duncan’s fans simply took to the streets with the news, only stopping short of calling for a public holiday to celebrate their hero’s latest acquisition.

Duncan Mighty’s grass to grace story is no doubt worthy of a novella.

But sources close to him have told E-Punch in clear terms that at no time did the Obianuju singer buy the multi million naira luxury car. According to a reliable source, Duncan did not buy any Rolls Royce. 

Says the source, "The car is not even new in the first place and there is no way he would have splashed so much money, that is if he has it, on just a car considering that he is about to complete his house in Port Harcourt.

He hired the car to shoot his new video in Abuja and he has since returned it. He didn’t even bring it to PH." 

The source could however, not confirm whether the car belongs to Duncan’s new benefactor, Chris Aire, the diamond merchant, but says Aire actually gave the singer a new Benz car recently as part of a deal they just entered into. In the widely syndicated picture of Duncan posing beside the car, he is wearing a shirt with the inscription, Chris Aire.

When contacted, Duncan gleefully accepted E-Punch’s congratulations but balked when asked about the true owner of the car. He says, "I didn’t tell the media I just bought a car. 

In fact, I don’t know where they got the news from. I have things bigger than that (referring to the N47million car) but I am not like Lagos-based artistes who go about bragging about what they have and what they do not have.

My brother, I have been to D’banj’s house but you need to come and see for yourself what I have erected in Port Harcourt.

I don’t live a fake life. I give back to the communities in my state; I give them boreholes, I give scholarships and I motivate youths. I have a construction company where I resume as a worker every morning but you won’t hear me making any noise about my possessions because God has blessed me more than a Rolls Royce." 

This is perhaps the second time in recent times that an untruth would be attributed to Duncan who was once to have been signed to foremost music label, Mo’Hits, as a sound engineer on a five-year deal, only for the label’s president, Don Jazzy, to deny signing anybody on Twitter.

That has, however, not diminished his meteoric rise in 2011. Indeed, one of the major breakout stars in the music industry of the last one year. Duncan Wene-Mighty has, since his debut album, Koli Water, containing among other hits, Ijeoma, Dance for me, and his sophomore album, Legacy (Ahamefuna), released in 2010, gone from a struggling wannabe to a wealthy music star with various state governments in the Niger Delta being his biggest clients.