Saturday 25 January 2014

Tope Alabi finally opens up on her affair with Prophet Ajanaku

In a recent interview with PUNCH, Gospel singer Tope Alabi
opened up on her affair with the late Prophet Ajanaku and her
sweet husband. See excerpts below:

You used to do sound track of movies?

Oh yes. But I don't really do it again.
Why did you stop?

I didn't stop because it is secular. I don't always have the time
to watch the movies before I do the sound track. I just
discovered that I was being given all kinds of movies. I would
just be told the title and a little synopsis of the movie and I
would do the sound track. Then when I do the sound track, it
would be different from what the movie is talking about. I
have now told producers that I have to watch the movie before
I do the sound track. What it means is that I would be forced
to reduce the number of movies I compose the sound track.

My sound track should not be different from what I preach
for. I can't compose sound track for movies that the major
story line is on herbalists. I can't praise herbalists. I will be a
rebellious child.

Your husband has been supportive; he is even your
manager…

He is no longer my manager. I have a new manager. He is the
marketer now. He is my boyfriend and the father of my
children. He is the small boy in the house that must eat first
even if no other person has eaten.

But most men don't want their wives to be in the spotlight,
how come he supports you like this?

I just thank God for his life. You can imagine, when we go
for programmes, I would be given a seat in the front row
while my husband would be given a seat at the back. Imagine!

I would always tell him to come and sit in front so I can go to
the back but he would never agree. He would ask me if he
was Tope Alabi. God has been guiding us. How would I have
managed without a husband like this?
Where did you meet him?

I met him in the studio. He was a studio rat. He worked
anywhere in the studio. He never went out of the studio. He
was such a tiny man when we met. But see him now, I have
packaged him. He has also packaged me as well. I am more
beautiful now. We met 19 years ago. We got married five
years after.

The issue you had with the late Pastor Ajanaku, did you
ever make up before he died?

On that issue, I would rather say no comment. When God is
working in your life, anything can happen along the line. The
Israelites faced turbulence and eventually got out of it. We
need people who are spirit-filled to just fold their arms and
watch what God will do.

Some people say you are happy he is no more…

God doesn't like anybody who rejoices over a friend or
enemy's death. I cannot be an enemy of what God created. I
can only be an enemy of God's enemy. If you don't like God,
certainly, I will not like you. But I still say no comment on
that issue.

Does it mean you will not tell us what really caused the
problem between you two?

No comment. I just want people to say what they want to say.

You are free. Your heart is not in my heart. People can
speculate. People can feel whatever they want to feel.
But we learnt he anointed another singer as his spiritual
child and it got you so upset…

I wasn't there. I don't know. So if I wasn't there, how would I
now 'put mouth' in something I don't know about? I can't say
what I don't know.

But did you feel bad that they said he had replaced you,
even if you weren't there, you must have heard it?

I cannot feel bad. I didn't feel bad. I can bring somebody
today and I decide to bring that person up. Anybody is free to
do whatever he/she feels like doing.

We learnt you also stopped attending his church…

Actually, I was never a member of his church but people
don't know this. I am just a woman who loves to help
ministries. I go to the church and I give money, not small
money. I can work for six months and I take my tithe to him
just to bless his ministry. I do that in other ministries. I can
minister in churches without collecting money. I know what I
have passed through. I know where I am coming from. I want
to bless God and thank Him. The first day I ministered in his
church, he gave me money but I didn't collect it. I never
collected money from him in my life, but I have donated
millions to his church and so many other churches. I have so
many people living in my house that I don't even know their
parents; and I just help them. I pay their fees. My husband
helps the widows, we donate to orphanages. We just want to
help.

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