Nollywood's Solomon Akiyesi Denies Marrying Another Wife While Still Married

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August 13, 2014 11:07 AM

The actor in a recent interview attempts to clear his name after the embarrassing scandal he was involved in last year.

Nollywood actor, Solomon Akiyesi, who was nicknamed "serial husband" made news last year after the well-publicized scandal involving him and three women, has finally opened up on the matter.

Speaking to Encomium in a recent interview, Akiyesi explained that it was untrue that he attempted to marry another woman while he was already married to one.

Read the full interview below:

Let me explain this, I was not going to wed anyone. It is not possible to wed another woman when you have a subsisting marriage. My wife...my ex wife and the woman I was purportedly marrying knew why we did what we did on April 13 2013. But the story became so crafted to look like I was actually going to marry another woman.

I took all the shame and shut my mouth. Maybe one day the truth will be revealed. But who would marry a woman in Africa without paying the bride price and other traditional rites? And maybe proper court process. I challenge anyone to come out and say I did any of those processes on another woman beyond my wife. Which of my family members was there at the so called wedding? Who can stand and say I gave them a wedding invitation for April 13 2013? I did not marry or attempt to marry another woman as overblown by idle minds.

I am a man and if I felt my wife no longer served her purpose in my life, I would disengage through due process and marry somebody else. After all I have seen men who would bring in another woman even into their matrimonial home while the original marriage subsist. Did I do such? No I didn't. What happened on April 13 2013 was a combination of factors, both spiritual and physical. Whoever will use that against me may as well do that a million times and perpetually dwell on that. I have no apology.

On that issue, let me say this is the first time I will ever grant an interview. I was shocked to see a lot of Idle bloggers and magazines or newspapers claiming I said this and that in an interview with them. Okay yes, the issue has been sorted out.

Its not abnormal to have marital upset here and there but I guess being an actor made mine worse, giving room for wannabe bloggers, magazine and newspapers to feast on my misfortune. We are not married anymore, we have gone our separate ways.

Our legal marriage was consummated in 2007, so we were together for six years

I was not the one who opted out of the marriage. My father in-law pressurized my wife to leave the marriage or he would disown her. Her level of misunderstanding of marriage also made it worse. So she had to align with her father

Everybody went their separate way that day and I haven't seen her or spoken with her since then.

I have no regret at all because a missed step can actually quicken your speed.

I am not used to family fighting my course. I have been a one man riot squad for years. I was born a warrior. I fight my battles and I win. Besides, I cannot say I come from that family that is so bonded.

I don't really know.

Friendship then understanding.

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