Singer, actor, journalist, Onyeka Onwenu, has disclosed that she turned down a marriage offer from late Afrobeat maestro, Fela Anikulapo Kuti.
She turned down the marriage proposal because Fela was a trickster.
She added:“Fela was a trickster, he knew I would say no. He had a bet with someone, that person is Dede Mabiaku. He told Dede I was going to run.”
According to her, Fela’s proposal might have been his way of thanking her for standing up for him when he was charged with money laundering and jailed by the Federal Government.
She said :“I took a chance writing that widely read article in his favour. I said why arrest him for the money he has earned? ‘He’s taking his band outside and he’s going to pay for their hotel, this is so wrong’ and some people said ‘go and arrest her’. It was Idiagbon who said ‘no, leave that woman alone, she loves Nigeria.’”
She also spoke on the rumoured romantic affair with former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
“They even said President Obasanjo married me. Obasanjo asked me about the rumour and we had a good laugh about it. Somebody had asked me that question four times, and by the fifth time I was ready to fight him to leave me alone. If he [Obasanjo] was going to marry me, then we’d make it public, why would I hide it” she disclosed.
After many years of enduring rumours of affairs and a turbulent marriage that almost killed her, Onyeka Onwenu revealed that she now enjoys a fulfilling love life with her childhood sweetheart. Sharing bits of her love life.
She said:“The love that I share with this man started when I was 13 years old. This man loved me, knew me, built me up and told me who I was before I knew who I was…You don’t meet people like him all the time, he’s just very special.”
