Popular Nollywood actor, Daniel Etim-Effiong has opened up on the circumstance that led to him marrying his wife, Toyosi.
He revealed that he ended up with his wife after his ex-girlfriend rejected his marriage proposal.
Etim-Effiong made the disclosure in a recent conversation with Chude Jideonwo.
He explained that he wanted to settle down, but his then-girlfriend wasn’t ready.
He stated that he then left South Africa for Nigeria, where he met his wife, who was the production manager of a project he was also working on.
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These were his words:
“I think two things came together to prepare me to marry my wife. At that time in my life, I was tired of dealing with several relationships. But I had a girlfriend at that time, and I told the girl that I think I am ready to get married, but she wasn’t ready. We were in South Africa at the time; she wasn’t a Nigerian woman.
“So, I told her that I wanted to get married, but she wasn’t ready. She said she had plans to go for graduate school in the United States, and she didn’t want to, for lack of a better word, be tied. And I was disappointed like, what is she talking about? We could do so many things together. At that time, I was ready for marriage. Anyone who was with me at that time had to answer the question, ‘Do you want to get married?’ Like I did ask my girlfriend that time, and she declined.
“And then, it coincided with coming back to Nigeria to be on a project that my wife was the production manager of. We had been talking before that time, but we met when we both came to Nigeria. It was her first job in Nigeria when she came back from New York. And then we met, and we started to talk. I had a long conversation with her. I told her that I really want to get married, and she said, ‘Let’s do it.’”
Recall that Etim-Effiong got married to his wife, Toyosi, in November 2017, a year after they met. The couple are blessed with 2 kids.
