Nollywood actress, Iyabo
Ojo, has given reasons she will never marry a poor man.
The actress whose marriage crashed, and has since refused to
remarry, told Punch that she is now ready to give marriage a chance.
She said, “If marriage comes along, yes I will consider it.
Then, I used to say that I didn’t want to get married again because of the
stress involved.
“Now, I have had a rethink. But I can’t marry a poor man. Some
people will say I shouldn’t say that, but I am a blunt person. For someone like
me, there is no love without money. I am a celebrity and I am
expected to maintain a certain lifestyle, which is expensive.”
“I have a lot of responsibilities . As a breadwinner and celebrity
, how do you expect me to marry a poor man? Where do you expect us to start
from?
“I am not ready to add any man’s problems to mine. I don’t need
the man to be very rich, but he must be able to feed himself and me. You don’t
even have to cater for my other responsibilities.
“We all have our defects. When you keep looking for an ideal
man, a good one will pass you by. I just need a man who is responsible for
himself first before me. Once he is hungry for success, every other thing will
follow.
“The kind of man I want in my life has to be more successful than
me. When I bought my personal assistant a car , people said I didn’t want her
to marry. I told them that I don’t expect her to marry someone who does not
have a car as well.
“You say what you want out of life; we shouldn’t deceive
ourselves. It is a choice to die in poverty and I have chosen not to die in
poverty. I cannot flow with someone who wants to die in poverty.”
