Jide Kosoko’s daughter opens up on how her father saved her marriage!

trading in the same industry with her dad has revealed his father’s
advice about marriage has really helped her in keeping a successful
marriage with her husband since she got married a couple of years ago.
body. He is the one who gives beauty and he endowed me with mine. So, I
give all the glory to him. Looking glamorous all days is by God’s grace.
We are here today not for beauty contest but uncle Debo’s birthday. He
is a unique person. He is unique in his ways of talking, dress sense and
all that. I told him all these the first day I met him.
with the body. Well, I don’t do anything extra ordinary to keep fit and
that is the truth. As a matter of fact, I still eat late at night which I
believe can affect my look and belly which I wouldn’t like but to be
sincere, I didn’t do anything extra ordinary. It is God.
that journey. I don’t bite more than I can chew. More so, my father’s
advice has kept my marriage going because he told me then before I got
married to be careful and watchful about any man that I want to marry,
because after your marriage, there is nothing like coming back home as a
divorcee. That alone keeps my marriage.
better than the way it used to be. There was a time that we were
actually going but at a point again, we started dropping but I believe
that it happens and it goes.
Kosoko. Initially, I didn’t like it because I felt no I shouldn’t do
that. As at that time, I was awaiting admission into the University, I
didn’t really like that idea and I was like let me finish schooling, I
can always come back to acting because education first, but he told me
that you can always be doing it with schooling, I heeded his advice. To
God be the glory today, I am a graduate and I have attained this level I
am. My father convinced me before I joined. He asked me to star in a
movie titled, “Omo Olorire” and that was 2001. I have done some before
then. I was in Ola Abata in 1999, in 2000, he asked me to feature again
and I was like why, you are turning me to an actor just like that, I
refused but after shooting that movie, I got into limelight.
For everything you do, you have to be good at it because there is no
shortcut to success except you work hard which I did to get to this
level, and of course I cannot rule it out that his name opens a lot of
doors for me but I have also worked hard to get to this stage.
prefer using Jide Kosoko’s daughter for me and I get mad sometimes when I
hear that and I will be like don’t you know my name, call me Sola
Kosoko. When I gained admission into the University, I do my things like
the normal way other students are doing it. If we are asked to queue, I
will gladly do that because I was a student but before you know what is
happening, they will just pick me from behind to the front. I don’t
know either that was from my dad or me because I was already famous as
at that time. Right now, I have produced 3 movies including Shindara,
Wosi Kenke and the last one is Ese Ni which is yet to be released to the
market.
performing arts at Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State. I
am not there alone. Myself, my dad, Abbey Lanre, Fathia Balogun and
Toyosi Adesanya. We just finished writing our last papers a few weeks
ago. And we are yet to do our practical in stage performance. It was
meant to be 6 months but this is our 9 months due to the unnecessary
strike.
