CAMILLE McEACH­NIE

Leader of the Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP), Wat­son Duke, wants so­ca artiste Machel Mon­tana's lawyer—J. Lar­ry Williams—to apol­o­gize for im­put­ing im­prop­er mo­tives to his use of the song “Buss Head”.

Bun­ji Gar­lin al­so sang the song along­side Machel Mon­tano.

Duke used parts of the lyrics from “Buss Head” dur­ing a live Face­book broad­cast on Au­gust 20, 2020, say­ing he had mere­ly quot­ed parts of the song when he called two To­ba­go women "stink and dut­ty" dur­ing the cam­paign trail for the 2020 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Williams had called out Duke for the song's use, say­ing he had not sought per­mis­sion from Machel, and used the song for his "own ne­far­i­ous pur­pos­es".

In a re­lease on Au­gust 23, Duke said the law per­mit­ted him to use parts of the song with­out per­mis­sion from the own­er.

How­ev­er, Duke took of­fense that Machel's lawyer sug­gest­ed that the song was used ne­far­i­ous­ly.

"I am pre­pared to ac­cept an im­me­di­ate and un­equiv­o­cal re­trac­tion and an apol­o­gy from Mr. Williams," Duke said in the re­lease.

He said if there were no apol­o­gy or re­trac­tion, he would take le­gal ac­tion against Machel's lawyer.

Con­tact­ed for com­ment on Duke's de­mand, Williams replied:

"I have no com­ment on that mat­ter."