In a lingering crisis surrounding the paternity of the popular gospel musician, Tope Alabi’s daughter, Ayomikun, regarding who the biological father is, there seemed to be a new twist to the narrative as Tope’s in-law revealed his truth regarding what transpired.
Recall that it all started when a man identified as Mayegun Olaoye, shown up after many years to claim paternity over Ayomikun.
In a report and chat screenshots by Gistlovers blog, the man who is an auto dealer said he is very sad that Tope has not allowed him to see their daughter, Ayomikun for years.
It should be noted that Ayomikun has been calling, Soji, who is officially Tope’s husband, her father.
In some WhatsApp chat screenshots, the auto dealer said: “Getting in touch in respect of Tope Alabi. I’m the father of her first child.”
He went ahead to say that the singer used to be his live-in lover from 1996 before she got pregnant in 1997. He added that the daughter was given birth to on the May 7th, 1998.
Olaoye said known Yoruba movie marketers and actors were in attendance at the child’s naming ceremony.
In a biting response, Ayomikun recanted and denied Olaoye as her biological father. She claimed Soji Alabi is the father she will always know.
“I will always know that my father is Soji Alabi. I do not know any other person and I have never met any other man. I cannot blatantly deny him because I have heard about him but I have never had anything to do with this man,” she said.
“My mother never blocked the avenues for us to see. My mother even tried for me to have a relationship with him. I remember when I was about 15 years old, she used to tell me about him but he never tried to reach out to me.”
She also added that there was no way she was going to bear his name as they do not have any relationship.
“I cannot bear his surname. How can I bear the surname of someone that I have never met? There is no sense in that. I do not even know his surname. How can I bear the name of someone I have never met?” she added.
“God knows my real father and everyone knows who my real father is. I did not know this man when I was in crèche, daycare, primary, secondary, or during my university days. I graduated and did not get a congratulatory message; absolutely anything from him.
“So, there is no much story to tell. It is just a story about an irresponsible father and he is trying to cut every relationship he could ever build with his so-called daughter. I genuinely do not know why he is coming out after 22 years.”
However, in long post by someone close to the family, it was alleged that Tope Alabi ungodly act when she was with Ayomikun’s dad led to the saga. Below is the unedited version of his response.
For the Records… I wish Ayomiku knows and could listen to the true full story of how she was born and her early years well from our own side too… But having said that, this is just a brief till her mother Tope Alabi her self come out to deny then maybe we would come out together to call living witnesses to the matter…
I am the brother to the Father and we can’t just be responding to all this matter because it might blow out of proportion that will now be as if we want to run Tope Alabi musical career down.. But with this advise she gave to Ayo to blow it on the media more without asking about how the blogger got the story might open past healed wounds for both parents… Who have moved on in life!
The fact is that a serious allegations of Ayomiku being a bastard came up and my brother had to state the facts that he is the father and can’t deny the fact that she gave birth to her ..
If a blogger now wants to make story to trend with it is it in any way my brothers fault?
I lived in same room with Tope and my brother at Oguntolu in Onipanu those years … I can give you first hand information about how they met and how Tope took charge of him and they both begin to live as husband and wife….
My brother took good care of Tope throughout the pregnancy till she gave birth to the baby … Do an Owambe party with musicians on the bandstand majority of the who is who back then in the Yoruba Movie Producers and Marketers at Idumota were all in attendance … Go ask any of them who didn’t know the story of Olaoye and Tope.. Hmmmm let’s just keep mute plz…
Do you know what Soji Alabi was to Tope when she was still married to my brother? Do you know how many times I came back from school to Lagos and met Soji in my brothers house with Tope alone? And all I could get when I told my brother was a beating of my life for saying rubbish of her wife and he was defending her that Soji was just her sound engineer and producer… Hmmmmm!!!! until she moved out with the baby just bearly a year old and within the next year got married to Soji Alabi that’s when he dawn on my brother.. Do you know she left my brother to bankruot when she left with a Movie and Music Album my brother sponsored.
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Plz just lets keep quiet about all these and don’t let us open what can lead to a greater mess about someone past… Our past should be past plz!
However, let me just give you a brief and if you like continue to say rubbish but for the likes of you who are reasonable people that could reason logically and making sense of the matter I will drop this until Tope Alabi come out to dispute it then we can call for both to face each other and open all past wounds.
For the Records!
The child was born 1998 and Tope left my brother 1999… She took the baby to her parents place at Mafolukun in Oshodi, Lagos where they lived I can’t remember how many times I had to go visit the baby when she was in nursery school even my kid brother Femi that was staying with my brother too do go there to visit the child with Xmas dress, gifts and necessary items to the mother who is taking good care of the baby then. I could remember on one occasion of my visit that Topes mother had to show me Ayomiku results in her report card saying how she was brilliant and performing well in class … More so, Tope used to come to Idumota to get money for the child’s upkeep until her second or is it the third album then “Oree ti o Common” become a hit and she become made after fortune smiled on her.
Since her life changed, money and fame started coming.. She took the child away from the mother to her husband house and that’s when we stop going to see the baby… My brother do call once a while to ask to see the child she would say she is busy and not always around in the country.. keep posting us she would bring the baby but never did. well she is made so she can take care of her.. my brother is married too has other kids and moved on too… I don’t think any right thinking person would advise anyone to be going to their married ex’s house all in the name of wanting to come look after my baby… Haba! We get levels too nau!!!! No one dey feed anyone o…..
Fast forward to 2018 when the child clocks age 20th and Tope granted an interview with this punch newspaper read the story below…
https://punchng.com/my-mother-checked-if-my-virginity-was-intact-till-i-married-tope-alabi/ where Tope Alabi said she was a virgin till he married Soji Alabi that’s when issues started and the paternity matter arose as we are told that Ayomiku is said to be Soji Alabi biological daughter and those that knows the story began say she is a bastard but my brother had to do a post to clear the air then on his Instagram page on the 20th Birthday of Ayomiku tagged her and tagged Tope Alabi too in order to make it clearer …
He is not asking to father the child now neither is he clamouring to come seat down at her wedding as it is being said in some blogs and comments … Let this sink well plz!
Two years ago after the 20th birthday.. part of the moves to clarify the issue then was when my brother reach out to Tope Alabi to ask why she had to change the Childs name, is it to cover up her root or what? and Tope came to the meeting organised by some major Yoruba Films Producers and Marketers in person of Alh. Wasiu of Wastayo Films, and Alhaji Ishola Saheed of Isolak Films at the Arena, Oshodi where I was in attendance as I have a recording of all the discussions made that day even Tope Alabi said it that day that we can record her statements which I did that day…. She said one thing she knew clearly was that Olaoye didn’t treat her badly nor wish her bad hence she didn’t tell Ayomiku any bad of her father that if any thing, she Tope is the one who will say he offended Olaoye and she would gladly apologise to him … She then said the reason she had to change the name of the child was because most times then, she do travel abroad for her music ministrations and she always had the issue of going to get the fathers consent at the embassy for her baby and to make things easier for her she had to change the name to Alabi for visas and traveling with her… Not that she deny her to know the story of her real father …
There that day, she gave him the number of the child and I guess my brother spoke with her for some times after then and they both didn’t get along well and even I, personally tried to have some business rapports and chats with her when the mother told me she was into event planning and management to assist with one of my national event then but because I could not get sponsors on time we could not strike the deal together and then she had to travel to the US for summer then too…
Above all we try to even caution our brother to thread gently with him getting close with her now as people might tag it to him trying to dig up the past of his ex… Now see all comments from those who don’t even know the real issues… Hmmmm
We never intend to run anyone down we all have our past and we believed the past should be a past no one is trying to claim any child or whatever… What my brother did to inform the blogger was to clarify issues as regards her paternity that she is called a bastard bearing another persons name and denying her of her real father
We all know what it means to be a Christian and live by what we preach for Ayomuku to be talking to her father and calling him irresponsible and a father who never cares in the past 22yrs was just acting from a mindset and notions formed that she already grew up with but its normal for baby mamas of today to always claim right river their baby by taking them away from the father but like I said both parents have moved on as it is not as if we don’t have kids in our family nor is it that my brother don’t have any child again and seeking for one to take back now…
We have clear the main issue of the paternity and whoever she likes let her call her father no one will be hurt of that but we know whose gene is in her…. The lineage she belongs to is from Owo, Ondo State as Soji Alabi is a Kogi State man and he knows for sure the child he nurtured is ‘funto” which nothing bad must not happened to…That is a fact that can never be altered… Time will tell for us all.
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