Shortly after his marriage to ex-wife Toni Payne packed up in 2010, 9ice
welcomed a set of twin daughters with another lady Vicki Gordis.
In a recent interview with gooo/feature/super-saturday-lounge/i-knew-my-mum-when-i-was-18-and-my-dad-at-22-9ice/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Punch, 9ice disclosed that he will be getting married soon to the mother of his twins, Vicki. See excerpts below:
Do we see you getting married to their mother soon?
I will get married soon. It is very possible.
moment with his mum. Education is good in Nigeria but we wanted him to
grasp a higher quality of education. His mum decided to go back to
America so he had to go with her.
been involved in his welfare right from the time he was born till now.
It will be like that till I give up.
rumours and gossips. It is left for people to pick out the meat. The
media has already stolen the show from me. There is nothing to talk
about again. I was one of the crowd and I was watching as the news were
flying.
that marriage, I will not be here today. I see life from a different
perspective now. There are things that are inevitable. So, many things
are bound to happen in life and there is nothing you can do about it.
When such things happen, you have to face it. You only have to manage it
when it happens and from there, you move ahead. If you don’t move ahead
from that situation, you will never go to the next level.
marriage is not for this generation and a lot of people question me when
I say it. My mother would always be in the house by 5.30 pm. Whether
my dad gave her feeding money or not, there must be food on the table
when he got home. My mother would give us school fees whether my father
gave her or not. But women of these days, even when the husband is at
home, the wife can come home later than 10pm and nothing would happen.
She would even stop by the eatery and buy dinner instead of cooking. The
principles God lay down for this institution is not there again. What
we have now is ‘manage institution.’ So, whatever situation we find
ourselves in, we should manage it and then there won’t be any trouble.
Now, how many marriages last? Because it is 9ice’s marriage, everybody
is talking about it. Check your neighbour. It happens everywhere.
- Why did you deny you had twins when they were born?
I did say I didn’t have twins then because I believe it was personal. If I have N1m, I think it is only my
account’s officer that should know how much I have. In fact, he
wouldn’t even have the right to check my account unless I ask him to do
that. He couldn’t just cull up my account details and start checking how
much I have. This is not a car we are talking about, these are human
beings.
- But when they grow up, do you think they will forgive you when they read that you once denied them?
I will tell them the reason I did that. It was the same way my father
gave me his own reasons. I didn’t know him until I was 22. I got to know
my mother when I was 18. They gave me their reasons for doing what they
did. I asked my father where he was all the time I was growing up and
he told me where and how and when he was a part of my life. If my kids
grow up to ask me why I did what I did, I would certainly explain to
them. I didn’t say I didn’t have kids just because I wanted to lie, No.
I had my reasons. I had my life to live.
- You are in showbiz, so you shouldn’t expect to have a private life…
But there are still some elements that are personal. I didn’t fight
anybody when the stories came out. I just didn’t say anything because I
wasn’t ready to talk about it. I wasn’t ready to share the story. When I
got ready, I even shared the pictures of the twins. Who knows, I could
have even used their pictures to make money and sell to a publication
that wanted them. But I just released the pictures.