chose to marry an unknown face outside the entertainment industry and
why he didn't marry any of his babes in the entertainment industry
like Stella Damasus, Kate Henshaw or even Gloria Ibru who has a
daughter with him.
Read his answer to one of the questions during the interview.
Of all the beautiful girls you dated, why did you settle for your wife, Ozioma?
Em...without trying to discredit anybody, because any past relationship
I have had, I respect, and a lot of them have moved into their own
families, so I try my best to respect who they are now regardless of
whatever we had in the past and that doesn't make any of them
unqualified or not a house wife material. No! It was a decision I
made. All the relationships I had in my industry did not get me to
that point where I could decide to say I do. Yeah, it went towards
that direction, but it didn't get there. So, I said to myself: dude,
maybe you need to look away from this industry, maybe your life
partner is not there, because sometimes people say if the person is in
the entertainment industry, the person already understands how crazy
your schedule is, knows that you would travel, you can be on tour for
6 months and because the person is in the industry, the person will
understand. That's what some people say. So, I thought that would
work, but it didn't work like that and it was not just a one-time
thing. So, I decided; I said, take your mind away from the
entertainment industry and look outside; maybe the wife you want to
look for now would be out there and not in the industry. So, I
deliberately took my mind away from the entertainment industry and I
told myself that well, they are fantastic people, but I think one
relationship, two relationships, three, four, five is enough to
convince you that you know what, try it from another side. I decided
to look out and it was in my looking out, away from the industry, that
I met my wife in God's kingdom. I went to perform at KICC (Kingsway
International Christian Centre in London). Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo's
church. That was how and where I met my wife. She came with her
sister. After my performance, I was signing my CDs for people. I was
so busy, I wasn't even looking up. People were on queue; they buy and
I sign. But immediately I saw her hand, I looked up, saw a very
beautiful woman, but couldn't do anything because there were so many
people on the queue. Later, when I left for my hotel, I still couldn't
get her off my mind. My heart was troubled. Then, a friend called to
say he wanted to take me out because I complained of boredom. Along
the way, he said we should stop over first at one exhibition going on,
and reluctantly I accepted. Azuh, listen to this - when we got to the
exhibition, it turned out that it was my wife's sister that was
organizing it and guess what? She was also there! And that was how we
started. She refused to give me her number. She only gave me her email
address and I started bombarding her with mails, sometimes 10 in a
day. Haba! Na me now! Let me tell you another interesting story -
during that time, I was getting shows almost every week in London. So,
we were always seeing. My manager will call me and say there's this
show, but what they are offering is not much and I will say take it!
Shebi they will take care of accommodation, flight and so on? Just to
see my wife o! So, I was always going to London, seeing her till we
got married. But you people, the press, didn't know until we finally
got married. My marriage was a big surprise to all of you, which I
like. At least, una don leave me alone.
Culled from Yes Magazine
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