Singer Innocent Ujah Idibia, known as 2Baba, has chastised Nigerians for being unduly concerned about his family.
The African Queen crooner said that, although claiming to have developed a thick skin to Nigerians’ critiques of his family over the years, he still gets wounded on occasion.
The father of seven bemoaned that Nigerians, who implied he was a bad parent to his children, had never volunteered to pay any of their school expenses.
This was mentioned by 2Baba during an appearance on the most recent episode of the Afrobeats podcast presented by British-Nigerian media personality Adesope Olajide.
He said, “Many people talk about kids, fatherhood, motherhood, all that whole circle. Many people talk about it with public opinion type of thinking. But it’s deeper than that. There’s nobody that has the exact blueprint for this thing.
“The basic truth of the whole matter is the connection with you and your little ones [children]. There is so many different ways to find it. There’s no one rule or one particular way.
“I speak to my kinds like say they be my mates. I don’t boss them around. I talk to them the way I talk to my friends and mom.
“I get a lot of jabs [trolling]. I got a lot of people that say stuff about me. People have trolled me severally on social media. And, sometimes it hurts. Sometimes some people will just go on social media to say rubbish. It’s just like terrorists bombing innocent people.
“And I will start wondering how till today, none of those critics the way they are concerned about my family come to assist in paying my children’s school fees. Not even a single soul.”
The Benue-born musician married actress Annie Macaulay, one of his three baby mamas, in a secret ceremony in 2012.
In recent years, the marriage has been marred by scandals, with Annie alleging 2Baba’s first baby mother, Pero Adeniyi, of continuing to have an affair with the musician.
There have also been rumors that the singer had another woman pregnant and was a bad father to some of his children.
However, 2Baba has subsequently dispelled all rumors.
