9ice will be getting married to the mother of his twins soon

Shortly after his marriage to ex-wife Toni Payne packed up in 2010, 9ice welcomed a set of twin daughters with another lady Vicki Gordis.

In a recent interview with Punch, 9ice disclosed that he will be getting married soon to the mother of his twins, Vicki.

 

Do we see you getting married to their mother soon?
I will get married soon. It is very possible.

 

So, will you be getting married to the mother of the twins?

It is very possible.

 

But is she the one you are with at the moment?

I am not saying anything on that. No comment.

 

What of your first son?

He is very fine. He is in America at the moment with his mum. Education is good in Nigeria but we wanted him to grasp a higher quality of education. His mum decided to go back to America so he had to go with her.

 

Do you communicate with them often?

Oh yes, I was even in America last month.

 

How involved are you in his welfare?

I have never been left out. I have always been involved in his welfare right from the time he was born till now. It will be like that till I give up.

 

You have not really talked about your marriage with Tony Payne?

News is always about assumptions and rumours and gossips. It is left for people to pick out the meat. The media has already stolen the show from me. There is nothing to talk about again. I was one of the crowd and I was watching as the news were flying.

 

Do you regret that marriage?

I don’t. I have never regretted that marriage. I have so many reasons.

 

What are the reasons?

It is not only because of my son. Without that marriage, I will not be here today. I see life from a different perspective now. There are things that are inevitable. So, many things are bound to happen in life and there is nothing you can do about it. When such things happen, you have to face it. You only have to manage it when it happens and from there, you move ahead. If you don’t move ahead from that situation, you will never go to the next level.

 

Is it likely you will get out of the marriage institution when you go into it again?

I pray I don’t. I always say that marriage is not for this generation and a lot of people question me when I say it. My mother would always be in the house by 5.30 pm. Whether my dad gave her feeding money or not, there must be food on the table when he got home. My mother would give us school fees whether my father gave her or not. But women of these days, even when the husband is at home, the wife can come home later than 10pm and nothing would happen. She would even stop by the eatery and buy dinner instead of cooking. The principles God lay down for this institution is not there again. What we have now is ‘manage institution.’ So, whatever situation we find ourselves in, we should manage it and then there won’t be any trouble. Now, how many marriages last? Because it is 9ice’s marriage, everybody is talking about it. Check your neighbour. It happens everywhere.

• Why did you deny you had twins when they were born?

I did say I didn’t have twins then because I believe it was personal. If I have N1m, I think it is only my account’s officer that should know how much I have. In fact, he wouldn’t even have the right to check my account unless I ask him to do that. He couldn’t just cull up my account details and start checking how much I have. This is not a car we are talking about, these are human beings.

• But when they grow up, do you think they will forgive you when they read that you once denied them?

I will tell them the reason I did that. It was the same way my father gave me his own reasons. I didn’t know him until I was 22. I got to know my mother when I was 18. They gave me their reasons for doing what they did. I asked my father where he was all the time I was growing up and he told me where and how and when he was a part of my life. If my kids grow up to ask me why I did what I did, I would certainly explain to them.  I didn’t say I didn’t have kids just because I wanted to lie, No. I had my reasons. I had my life to live. 

• You are in showbiz, so you shouldn’t expect to have a private life…

But there are still some elements that are personal. I didn’t fight anybody when the stories came out. I just didn’t say anything because I wasn’t ready to talk about it. I wasn’t ready to share the story. When I got ready, I even shared the pictures of the twins. Who knows, I could have even used their pictures to make money and sell to a publication that wanted them. But I just released the pictures.