By Victoria Nnenna Ibezundu, YeyeNews.com, September 01, 2021
- Anita’s demands were rude to the Rudeboy
The leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Twins has taken issue with the divorce petition filed by Anita Okoye, the estranged wife of Paul Okoye of the defunct music group, P-Square.
In a leaked document, the US-based Anita who is desperately seeking the title of ex-wife which is fashionable these days among Instagram women petitioned an Abuja High Court to dissolve her union with Paul Okoye aka Rudeboy. Whether Paul was ever rude to her, we do not know but according to the leaked document, in addition to other things she asked the court to grant “Payment of a monthly maintenance sum of $15,000.00 (US Dollars) for the general welfare, education and health of the three children of the union who are presently in schools in the United States of America until they are of age.”
NANT, who held an extraordinary emergency executive meeting in Lagos, spoke with reporters including our own Yeyenews.com Emergency Reporter Chief before taking questions. The national president Chief Ola Soyinka ridiculed the divorce application and said it was Anita that was supposed to be divorced, it was Paul that was supposed to file for the divorce and he was supposed to have filed it 10 years ago.
“Anita’s demands were rude to the Rudeboy to start with. But how could that woman put asunder what God joined together right in the womb,” he said
“Peter and Paul were joined together in their mother’s womb and they came to this world together. They had been together since birth, slept on the same bed, suck the same breast – sometimes Paul sucking the right one and Peter sucking the left one at the same time happily. They cut teeth together, took baby steps together, went to schools together fighting bullies, demons and every other evil spirit. They knew each other’s dreams and sometimes Paul dreamed the dreams of Peter because the angels that gave dreams couldn’t tell the difference between Peter and Paul. Then Paul made the mistake of marrying this Anita of a girl,” he continued amidst stifles and drops of tears from him and some of his members.
Chief Soyinka who was overtaken by emotion could not continue and he signaled the national leader of the women’s wing of NANT, Mrs. Clarissa Tamuno, to take over the briefing.
Auntie Tamuno, as she was affectionately called there, reminded Yeyenews.com reporter of late Chief Mrs. Christy Essien Igbokwe. She could pass as her sister and their voice had the same cadence.
“What God joined together, what angels loved so much – such that Angel Gabriel thought Peter and Paul songs in the dreams – what demons of Anambra State and all the ashawo Abuja could not destroy, this Anita of a woman destroyed. She was heartless. She took music from them, took enjoyment from their fans and destroyed an era”, Auntie Tamuno said as if she was singing it.
“I divorced my husband because he wanted to separate me and my twin sister. He did a business with my sister’s husband and because it didn’t go well, he wanted me to stop any relationship with my sister. I said no and the problem escalated and I divorced him”, she continued to a round of applause by her fellow members.
“Any man or woman who wants to bring division between twins should not prosper in Jesus name!”, she prayed and members shouted “Amen”, “Isee” and some other words Yeyenews.com reporter did not understand
“Anita Okoye deserves to be divorced”, thundered in by Chief Soyinka.
During the question-and-answer session that followed after the press conference, NANT executive members, who took turns answering questions, told reporters that Peter applied to be a member of NANT in 2018 but his application was rejected. The reason was that to be a member, all the set of twins must join at the same time except if any of them was dead. If there was dead, the living one must produce the death certificate of the deceased one. Since Peter did not talk to Paul there was no way to get a joint application, NANT did not accept his application.
Some members wanted a special waiver to be granted to Peter on the ground that Paul, who every member of NANT believed was the problem between God’s business of Peter and Paul, was dead already to Peter. The waiver idea was rejected on the grounds that even though Paul was dead to Peter, Peter could not provide a death certificate since Paul was still alive.
The adult members, who constitute the majority, voted en masse against the proposal because, according to them, nobody should take sides when twins are having conflicts. However, the youth wing, then led by Engr. Nnamdi Kanu, the youngest project manager at Shell Petroleum, whose twin sister is a lawyer and the youngest Nigerian called to bar, took sides and went ahead to introduce a death certificate produced by his sister who argued that certain part of the Nigerian constitution gives citizens the right to petition the court for a dead certificate of a living family member if the family member has not spoken with you in three years and therefore you can count them as dead to you. “If your son hasn’t called you in three years, go to any court and get his living death certificate”, it was said she argued.
Peter and Paul rift brought friction in NANT so much that so many meetings ended in chaos and deadlock with some members – mostly young members – resorted to calling Anita some bad names like “homewrecker”, “homebreaker”, “ashawo”, “evil”, and so on
Auntie Tamuno, a second generation twin, on her part said that young members, especially Igbo members, should be grateful to God that they are here. They should calm down and not act in reactional manners. She said her mother was the first twin in her village in Okoh not to be killed because the missionaries rescued her and her twin brother left to die in the forest. Her mother had her and her twin sister. She also used the opportunity to thank God because her daughter just gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, some weeks prior. She hoped that the twin gene should continue in her lineage. “Odi anyi n’obala (It’s our gene)”, she said softly with a smile like in a song.
Yeyenews.com reporter sought comments from the new youth leader of NANT, Mr. Adamu Idriss, on the past event. Mr. Idriss, a Nigerian-American and a member of a set of three twins (two boys, one girl), who was born and raised in Chicago said he feared for his sanity during those days. He said it was OK to disagree but calling Anita “ashawo” was beneath learned members of an organization like NANT.
“Bruh, we’re here to support one another, to do great things. Not callin’ women hos. We don’t roll like that”, he said in his native Chicago accent.
