Nigeria’s most popular Fuji music star, King Wasiu Ayinde Omogbolan Anifowose Marshal aka K1 has opened up on his relationship with his wife, Emmanuella Aderopo and the rumoured crack in their marriage.
The 67-year-old Maiyegun of Yoruba land revealed that his marriage to Emmanuella is very much intact. He admitted that though every marriage has its ups and downs, with his own included, he enjoys a wonderful marital life with Emmanuella.
K1 hinted that while naysayers and rumour peddlers are going about town saying his marriage has collapsed, he enjoys a wonderful relationship and marital life with his wife.
He further said the reason many wonder why his wife is not always in Ijebu Ode with him is because she’s overseeing her business in Ikeja, Lagos after he invested heavily into the business so as to expand frontiers. He also noted that his wife comes home to him in Ijebu and doesn’t need to inform anyone about that.
In his words, “Number one, let me tell you the truth, I laugh a lot when I read some things or when people gossip or put out things on social media without verifying or having a clue of true situations. I am human and even couples that have spent over 50 years together can’t come out publicly and say they haven’t had disagreements in their marriage. It’s impossible to sustain living together all those years without disagreements – major or minor.
“Nobody is there to witness what problem or if I have problems with my wife. I am not complaining neither is my wife complaining. Again, who are these third parties that keep saying I have issues with my wife or that our marriage is disturbed? The third of March was my birthday and this same wife they write all sorts about was here with me, even though I said I didn’t want anything done or any elaborate gathering, myself and my wife still took pictures with the children, we had cake cutting and merry to the best of our abilities because the situation in the country calls for reasoning and I decided to mellow down.
“Just in September 2023, we gathered people and spent so much on my chieftaincy title and I told my wife that I don’t want any gathering or party again this year. Just because my wife goes to monitor her business in Lagos, we were putting on a new business on Allen Avenue, we are moving, yet they are talking and relating untrue stories. I am moving forward with my wife and our lives are getting better, I am working, my wife is working and they are talking.
“So, I don’t have problems with my wife but that doesn’t mean husband and wife don’t have disagreements, if husband and wife disagrees in the morning and by night, they resolve it, then it should end there. Must I live my life on social media or live my life to convince people on social media that I don’t have problems with my wife, no, I won’t do that. They should leave me because I am enjoying the grace of God and I should not be subjected to that. If I have to speak about many people saying what not about me, the world would go gaga, they would run for cover but I don’t want to make an issue with anybody. I am not a saint and I have never said I am one but I am neither a bad person as being painted.
“Only those who have opportunities to be around me will understand me better. I am a disciplinarian, I won’t take nonsense neither would I give nonsense but because of the responsibilities that my chieftaincy titles have put on my shoulders, I condone a lot of nonsense that ordinarily I am not supposed to take. Social media has turned the world upside down and people hide behind the keyboards to attack elders, bully people and perform all sorts.”