Foluke Daramola and hubby Kayode Salako are still trying to get
people to understand their love and for the first time too, in a chat
with CityPeople, Kayode revealed the actual reason, according to him,
his ex wife left their marriage.
Excerpts:
"I am granting this interview because I believe it is time for me to
tell the world, why my ex wife decided to leave. That is the essence of
this interview.
I want the whole world to know that Bukola did not leave me because of 3
things (1) that I am irresponsible (2) that Foluke used juju to drive
her away (3) because members of my family wanted to kill her.
I need to give you a clear picture of what happened so that my wife can
be free from that mess. I want to say that Bukola was the one who packed
up the marriage and left. But I know it was a very painful decision for
her.
Even before I met Foluke, the two of us have been discussing it. We
have been thinking on how to go about it. Bukola did not enjoy that 13
years she lived with me, because I was treating one ailment or the
other. She was always in and out of the hospital.
Why?
I don’t know. I don’t fall sick. I am AA blood group. Foluke is AA.
She is AA. My ex-wife is AA. When you are AA you don’t have business
with sickness. I am telling you that since I know myself to be a human
being, I have never been to the hospital. Foluke has never fallen ill
since I married her. In my family, we don’t fall sick and we have
longevity.
In my ex-wife family too, they don’t die young. They don’t fall sick.
But unfortunately she never enjoyed that 13 years because she was
always falling sick. Today we will treat eye problem with excruciating
pain. Tomorrow it will be ear, then teeth, then the back. It was always
from one mysterious problem to another throughout the 13 years.
Even before I started my Fasholamania project that brought me to
limelight. We have been going through all that. But how many people will
I tell that outside. There was a time I slept in the hospital for
almost 6 months. Even before she gave birth to my 3 boys I saw hell
because from day I of the pregnancy, it was hell till she delivered. But
one thing that is mysterious is that Bukola did not know the mystery
behind her health problems in the marriage.
I, the husband was not falling sick. There was even a time, Bukola
died in the hospital. She was certified died. About 20 minutes after she
opened her eyes again and came back to life. You can go to Life center
Hospital at Amore Street in Ikeja. The hospital is own by Redeemed
Church. They can tell you our story there. How we always come in and out
of there.
That hospital was not only our hospital. We had several hospitals.
Sometimes I will have to rush my wife to the hospital at 1 am to 2 am at
night when her health condition starts. So throughout all the 13 years,
Bukola never enjoyed the marriage. It was so mysterious that I had to
go out to consult some Pastors to pray.
Please take us back to when we first her (Foluke). How did you hit it off?
In a nice way. Foluke did not jump at me at first. At the time we met
she was already preparing to leave Nigeria, to relocate to Canada. So
she was only gathering money to travel with her children. She didn’t
want to prostitute like other women. She is a principled person to the
core. She does not believe in using sex to build a relationship. So she
didn’t jump at me, in fact she gave me a hell of a problem. I was
confused. I later understood her and we became friends. I think maybe I
touched the better part of her heart, maybe from the subtle way I
related with her. We used to talk a lot and we used to relate as
friends.
I am like that too. I am 43 years old but I am young at heart. I
behave like a child. That is what got to Foluke. I was hanging around
her like a natural friends, agelessly. I just discover that after a
while Foluke started liking me unusually she started becoming drawn to
me. At the end of the day we became very good friends and she was even
ready to be learning from me. She began to take my advice. At a time,
she now saw me beyond just being friends. She now began to see me as an
elder brother and a true companion and someone she could always count
on. That was how the whole story started. We didn’t start by sleeping
with each other.
What one Bukola Fasuyi was saying around last year was all fallacy.
There was no truth in it. My own Foluke is not the kind of woman who
needs to do juju to a man. That is not her orientation. She is a woman
who believes in going to school to acquire more and more certificates. I
have lived with Foluke for one year now and I can say she is the best
thing that has happened to my life.
Right now, she has become a natural part of me. I am so used to her
to the extent that I sometimes forget that I have lived with a woman
before. We discussed everything. I live in her now and she lives in me.
That is how we started it and that is what we have built it up to. So, I
want to disabuse that public impression that my wife used juju to woo
me. I want to say I am not that type of a man any woman can use juju to
woo or snatch. Foluke knows the kind of person I am. Before she even
tries it, I will know.