She, however, will be brief because, according to her, she has a reputation that would not be allowed to be sacrificed on the altar of falsehood, frustration and desperation that she believes has become the hallmark her erstwhile husband, Mr. Okufulire.
Laide said she could not believe it
was Mr. Okufulire who had said all he was quoted to have said in news
magazines’ serial interviews. “Ordinarily, I would not believe all the stories
of him saying those rubbish in the media. May be he was being pushed to say
those things by those who know nothing about how we lived together or, may be,
they just want to put him in a big trouble”, Laide had said
Reacting to his alleged claim that
he was going for a DNA test over their child, Laide said that Mr. Olumide, if
he actually said that, “must have gone mad”. she alleged that Olumide “must be
oozing from chronic drunkenness which became his status long before she met
him.She is simply daring him to go ahead with the decision. “Let him go ahead
if he really meant it but I’m sure he has run mad. On the claim by Mr.
Okufulire that Laide never separated from him as wife before she wedded another
man, in this case, Mr. Tunde Oriowo, the actress stated that she actually
divorced Mr. Olumide Okufulire in October 2011 from the marriage of understanding
she had with him.”I divorced him properly and normally”, she said. Continuing,
Laide said that, five consecutive times, court injunction papers were sent to
Mr. Okufulire notifying him of her (Laide’s) decision to quit the marriage but
that Okufulire would not sign the documents neither did he return any of those
documents.
“When I realized that he was not
ready to let go of me after I was sure I had done enough trying to salvage him
from chronic drinking of alcohol and other things I would not like to talk
about now, including other bad habits that usually follow heavy drinking, I
sought the advice of my lawyers who told me I was good to go. That was in 2011,
around October. I have left him since then”. According to Laide, even while
they were married, they never stayed together as husband and wife. It was their
collective agreement, though. “He would only visit me in Nigeria when he felt
like and then left. I would also visit him in America and returned to my career
in Nigeria. It was an understanding between us”.
What actually poisoned her mind
against the marriage with Mr. Olumide, according to the actress, was when she
discovered that Mr. Olumide has a grown up child and two different women. “He
lied to me that he was never married and had no children yet when we agreed to
marry. But I was shocked to find out later that he has a 14 years old son, his
first, in Ondo, Ile Oluji, named OLAOLUWA, and she has a mistress living with
him in America named TOSIN. What I faced learning about these women should not
be a subject for the public but the best decision was for me to leave. My new
husband, I met him almost one year after I left him. That is just to let the
public know the truth about me because I’m a celebrity and nobody knows him
until he got married to Laide Bakare”.
Olumide is a disappointment. I know
what I’m talking about. He has disappointed so many people I know. I went
through a lot staying with him. I had to be dragged to pay heavy debts he owed
people which I knew nothing about. He kept drinking heavily and owing debts
leaving me to pay them. Yet he was dishonest. If truly he has said he would
arrest me, he should know that I’m the one that can put him in trouble. Let him
back his talks with action. He must be unserious and irresponsible to have said
he wanted a DNA for our daughter. Let him do it, I’m available but that is not
the hallmark of a good father. But I’m not ready to talk on the matter again
because I’m now a free woman. I have a new live now which I’m enjoying with my
lovely husband, the biological father of my new baby, Babatunde”.
The actress said that though
she ordinarily would not react to Mr. Okufulire’s tantrums because of the
future of their little daughter’s future, but it is imperative to speak up so
that those who read and give comments to her ex-husband’s claims can have a
balanced picture of the issue.
- Gossip Nigeria
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