Bisi Oladipo Obe - Some People Tried To Make Me Terminate My Baby

Here's what top Yoruba movie actress and producer, Bisi Ibidapo- Obe told Kayode of PMNews about her new baby, how she felt after former lawmaker, Dino Melaye denied being responsible for her  pregnancy.

• You are now a mother. How do you feel?

In fact, this is the greatest thing to have happened to me. I am exceedingly happy to be a mother.  I am so grateful to God that He has counted me among mothers. This is what I have wished for all my life. Motherhood is sweet!

• How did you feel when the father of your daughter rejected the pregnancy?

It was shocking and I felt bad but it was nothing to me. During that period, I didn’t allow it to bother me too much.
My primary aim then was to have a safe delivery and to God’s glory I was able to have that. The scandal was too much then, but I didn’t allow it to affect me.

• Did you ever consider abortion as an option then?

Never! I rebuke that in Jesus name. This is what I have craved for. This is what many rich men and women cannot afford to buy with money and God now blessed me with such gift.
It never crossed my mind because I considered her (the baby) a gift from God. Why should I abort the baby? You needed to see me then. I flaunted the pregnancy anywhere and everywhere.
Although attempts were made by some people to get it terminated but the God that I worship did not allow this to happen.

• Who are those people?

I wouldn’t want to talk about them. But I was attacked physically and spiritually. But thank God as He proved Himself to them.

• Right now the baby is here, what is the relationship between you and Dino Melaye?

Relationship? Seriously, I wouldn’t want to talk about it. What is more important is that the baby is alive and I pray to God to give me long life to take good care of her. As I said earlier, she is a gift from God.

• Since you don’t care about the baby’s father, how do you intend to raise the girl all alone?

Every mother has good plans for her child, but I don’t think you expect me to start revealing that on the pages of newspapers. I have good plans for her but this is between me and God. He has never disappointed me and I am sure He will not do that now. He has proved to me how mighty and wonderful He is. 

• How have you been able to deal with bad press, and which one would you consider the worst?

The worst so far was the story by a soft sell magazine that I slept with a waiter in a hotel in the United States while I was on a visit to see my boyfriend. That story jolted me because as at that time of writing the story, I was still here in Lagos.
In fact, I haven’t obtained my US visa then, so I wondered the source of that story. Even my boyfriend too came to Nigeria to check my international passport, thinking that I came to the US without his knowledge.

• Given your experience with Dino Melaye, do you still believe in love?

Why not? The fact that a man breaks your heart does not mean that you shouldn’t pick up the pieces and move on with your life. It won’t stop me from giving my heart to another man. I only need to be careful with the kind of man that I will open my heart to.