Alhaji Wasiu Alabi, popularly known as Pasuma he divulged some closely
guarded secrets regarding his past and his unmarried status.
Extract:
YOU once said growing up in Mushin must have been a rough and tough time for you. How rough exactly was your childhood?
Talking
about rough, there is something about Mushin that people run away from.
Being a Mushin person, people don’t usually want to associate with you
or give you things. When someone asks you where you are from and you say
Mushin, they don’t want to have anything to do with you. But I saw it
as a challenge. When I was a young boy, I attended Muslim Mission
Primary School. Afterwards, I moved to Nigeria Model High School, Idioro
also in Mushin. I decided that I wanted to get out of the place and
make people know that it is not only rascally people that come out of
Mushin. If we can talk of someone like Honourable Funmilayo Tejuoso,
Honourable Ganiyu Solomon, Honourable Muiz Bamire all from Mushin making
a difference, I determined that I could do better than they did. And
thank God, for where I am today and I am proud to say it anywhere that I
am from Mushin.
Are you not married or you’re divorced?
I am not married but I have children.
In Yoruba culture, a 45-year-old man is expected to have been married.
Exactly.
So why aren’t you married?
I
don’t want to rush into it. I would have been married earlier but it
didn’t work out. The person I was supposed to have married was Ayo
Adesanya. I love her so much. Everybody in my family knew her and knew
that I wanted to marry her.
What happened?
You journalists
caused it. Nobody outside of my family knew about our relationship then
and that was the way we wanted it. But one day we went together to a
show and some journalists saw us together and they slammed our pictures
on the front page of the newspaper. It was The Fame newspaper then.
Apparently, they had been hearing the rumour but they could not confirm
it so they didn’t use the story. But this day when they saw us together,
they just used the picture, without even interviewing us. When the
wahala started, Ayo couldn’t handle it anymore. I would call her that I
want to see her and she would say she was busy. I could feel it that she
was withdrawing from the relationship and I had to let her go.
Did you feel you made a mistake letting her go?
Well,
there’s something about love. If you love someone, you’d want them to
be happy. If their happiness is not with you, you’ll have to let them
go. She couldn’t handle the pressure and she obviously was not happy
again. So I had to let her go.
It seems you’re still in love with her. Are you?
(Laughs). She’s been married and has a child. Although the relationship didn’t last.
If Ayo says yes to your marriage proposal today, would you still marry her?
Yes! If she says yes today, we’ll head for the altar tomorrow.
So you’re still in love with her.
Yes.
Are you dating someone now?
I am free. I am currently single but I have a friend.
Did you date Iyabo Ojo?
No.
Thank you for that question. Let people know that she and I are not
dating. She is my very good friend and we are very close. Outside of
that, we are not dating. We have not dated before, and we are not
dating. The idea has not crossed our minds.
Now that people have planted the idea into your mind, would you consider it?
No. We are friends and that is enough for us. I am not dating Iyabo. Please help me tell them.
You’ve given almost 30 years of your life to music. Any other plans for the future?
Let’s
wait and see what the future has for me. You have to understand that
you have to move with time and seasons. My own is that I want people to
think of me and say this guy has tried for the industry and for the
country. I want people to say I want to become like Pasuma. I want
people to live a free and purposeful life. My future is in God’s hands. I
pray for long life though and to be able to use that life to make
significant impact on people’s lives and to make the industry bigger.
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