As
award-winning, singer Tuface Idibia, exits the singles club, the world
is watching the lips of some other ‘eligible’ artistes, writes CHUX OHAI
Singer Innocent Idibia, aka Tuface, will
happily tie the nuptial knots with his heartthrob of many years,
Nollywood actress Annie Macaulay in Dubai on Saturday (tomorrow). For
the couple, who are both stars in their own rights, the much-vaunted
wedding is the climax of a relationship that has somewhat managed to
survive many storms and crises.
Before Tuface made the all-important
decision to walk down the aisle with Annie, many music fans had
literally concluded that he was not marriageable. With about five
children from three women, most single ladies had stopped dreaming of
grabbing him for keeps.
For a while, the talented singer was the
butt of many jokes rolling down the lips of every stand-up comedian in
the country. Some of them even referred to him by funny pseudonyms. They
called him ‘Father Abraham’. But all that now belongs to the past.
As the hour draws near, Tuface and his
bride will be counting their blessings and looking forward to a future
filled with marital bliss. Unfortunately the same cannot yet be said
about his colleagues who have yet to summon the courage to quit
bachelorhood.
Interestingly some of these artistes are currently walking the same path that Tuface has just abandoned.
It is no longer news that the likes of
Timaya, Terry G, Ice Prince, Wizkid and MayD have been weaving in and
out of relationships with women. They seem to have many things going for
them: they are young, famous, rich and enjoy lots of goodwill from
music fans across the country. The only snag is that they seem to be
contented with making babies without getting married to their mothers.
A few months after Timaya’s romance with
Empress Njamah packed up, the dreadlocked dancehall star found happiness
again when his girlfriend, Barbara, was delivered of a baby girl.
The new baby came as a huge relief to the
singer who had been clearly worn out by the emotional stress that
followed the breakup of his affair with Empress. He was so overjoyed
that he sent a message to his fans on Twitter, announcing the birth of
the child.
But Timaya surprised many music fans who had expected him to marry the mother of his daughter. In an interview with E-Punch last year, he made it clear that marriage was not in his agenda.
“I wanted to have a baby by Barbara
because she is my kind of woman; the kind of woman I’d like to spend the
rest of my life with and this was why I decided from the outset that
I’d go the whole hog with her. But she knows that marriage is not
something we will dabble into now.
“Marriage comes with a lot of
responsibilities which are beyond financial or material things. God has
blessed me with everything a man needs to have a successful married life
and you can bet that Emmanuella and Barbara will get the best of
everything money can buy but, personally, I don’t feel ready for it,” he
had said.
Also in November, 2012, Terry G’s
fiancée, Mimi, put to bed a baby boy in London. It was a double blessing
for the baby daddy who had just moved into his own house at the
Iju-Ishaga area of Lagos.
But, while Terry G had taken the first
step towards solemnising his relationship with his lover, Chocolate City
rapper Ice Prince and Wizkid appeared to be too busy trying to weave
their way through a maze of starry-eyed female admirers.
One starry-eyed girl named Bimbo
Babatunde was eventually delivered of a baby boy in March, 2012 and Ice
Prince (real name Panshak Zamani) is said to be the father of the child.
Although he kept denying it, Wizkid was
rumoured to have fathered a baby girl. Sources said the evidence that he
might have joined the league of ‘baby daddies’ lay in a picture of
himself and a cute baby girl that he hung in the living room of his new
home in Lagos. But the artiste is reluctant to tell.
Apart from that, Wizkid was at one time said to be deeply involved with controversial actress, Tonto Dike.
Now that Tuface is finally calling it
quits with a stormy bachelorhood, the question is: will the others now
waiting in the wings follow in his footsteps? Only time will tell.
