Three years ago, your marriage to Titi Masha made the headlines
and many said that the union was just a matter of time. You’re together with
the same woman against the speculation of cynics…
Interestingly,
it is not three years. It is about five years. Titi Masha and I have been
involved in this since 2010 and no one knows what was happening until she
became pregnant and that was when people started talking about it. We give
thanks to the Almighty. Our first child is almost three years now and we have
another daughter who just clocked one recently.
But
I will tell you something; from my experience in the past, and for the kind of
a man that I am, a man who had been in some other relationships before my
present relationship, you expect people to talk. And for the kind of business
that I do, being in the showbiz, you expect people to talk about you.
Those
of us in the showbiz industry are the material that is needed to keep the
industry going. All the things that happen in our lives are what form the basis
of what people talk about. A lot of people learnt from our lives, which is
good. But we must always do what is right and just, knowing full well that we
are the mirror that the public look at.
I
give thanks to God anyway. My story with Titi Masha has been a fantastic one
and whatever it is, we give glory to the Almighty God that we have both given
ourselves the chance to demonstrate true friendship, and in doing that you get
to understand each other perfectly well and you get to overlook many things and
that is what keeps relationships going.
Yoruba
people say ‘ka ri, ka se bi eni pe a o ri, ohun lo nmu ile aye derun’ (the
discipline to ignore so many things makes the world an easy place to inhabit).
You can only be the architect of peace in your own life. You can only be a
drawer of a smooth kind of a life for yourself, because as you lay your bed, so
you lay on it. That has been our story really.
Our
story has been a fantastic one like I said, and she has been a wonderful
person. And one thing I like about her that I am always proud of is the fact
that she is into business. When you marry a working woman that has a good
background from parents who she grew up seeing working, definitely, you will see
a betterment of life.
Because
she grew up seeing her parents working, she didn’t see them idling away at home
‘gisting’ and gossiping; she wasn’t pushed onto the streets to go and search
for a living by herself, which has given her a strong foundation.
And
for someone with such background to have chosen to marry someone like me is a
huge sacrifice. And so far, I thank God that she has had no cause to regret.
She is a fantastic woman. She is up by 6am every day, by 9am she is on her way
to work after having taken care of the kids and sorted out the one that will go
to school.
She
doesn’t return home until about 6pm. And when you see a woman who operates such
a working-life every week, there won’t be any rooms for nonsense talks, gist
and gossiping. But it is when a woman stays all her life at home that she would
hear the story from the next building;
she
would own a phone which becomes a tool for gossiping and all that, which will
lead to other things. Such a woman cannot fit into the life of a man like me. So,
this is where Titi scores big. I am not the man who is always at home that my
wife will be disturbing me with gist.
Even
when I am around my wife doesn’t disturb me with gist of what happened when I
wasn’t around; because we are both hardly at home to have time for such. She
fits so well into my life, and I fit exactly into hers too. We complement each
other and that has given us a wonderful life together and honestly, I can tell
you that my going into a relationship with Titi was the beginning of serious
living of life for me.
Though you have Titi as your wife now, you still have other
women who you have been in relationship with at some point. What is your
current relationship with your other women who were in your life before she
arrived?
I
don’t have any other woman that I am in a relationship with. All other women in
my life had been in the past. And this is what I said on stage last week when I
was performing at her brother’s wedding that in the last five years, I have
never been disturbed, that she has given me reasons not to have High Blood
Pressure.
I
don’t change homes, it’s when you have situations like you have to sleep here
today with Madam A, and another place with Madam B that you are bound to have
problems. And like I said, I give thanks to Almighty God. I am okay, I live a
peaceful life, I am not restless and everything is fine.
The
truth is, having been involved in series of relationships in the past, I now
find peace and joy in what I am into at the moment. Titi was lucky to be what
and who she is and I am glad to have found someone like that who complements me
in many ways. Like I said, we complement each other and it makes life better
for us.
