OJB the
popular music producer that was diagnosed and operated kidney failure, over
2years ago and has been in the country since then.
Babatunde Okungbowa
was in an interview with Nigeria Tribune, where he unveils deep running about
his life and more
It is bigger than
alcohol. Take for example, I had stopped drinking eight years before the
problem started. When they check you, your toxic result will come out and they
will tell you what your problem is.
Mine was zero in alcohol. What it had to do
with was basically your diet pattern and your stress and rest pattern. It is
either you get it from high blood pressure or you get it from diabetes.
Yes, you can say
sometimes, alcohol could play a role because the end product of all the alcohol
we were drinking was sugar. For me, mine was blood pressure-driven, because
most of the time, I was working double more than I used to work. Of course, one
is growing older and there is a limit to what the body can take. When you are
sleeping four hours in a day, it will definitely take its toll on you. It may
not happen immediately, it could happen five or six years later. That was my
own case.
On
his Kidney Donor
My first wife was the
donor; she gave me the kidney. It got to a time when there was no where else to
turn to. I even heard that many people came out to be tested to know if they
could donate their kidneys. That actually touched me.
On
How he felt when she said she would donate her kidney
Yes, I have more than
one wife. I have three wives. The fact is that the three of them actually came
out and they were all tested. It was not that I told them that they must come
for the test; they did it voluntarily. I had made up my mind how I was going to
go about the surgery.
There are places
where you have donor banks. I had said I was going to go for that but they
shocked me when I heard they all wanted to donate their kidneys. In the last
minute, they didn’t tell me what they were up to, I just noticed that they were
always going to the hospital for one test or the other. I later got to know
that the three of them were tested, so what happened was more of who would the
donor be? The thing they were looking at was that, the third one just had an
operation, so it was difficult to open her up again. The second one could have
done it too but the first one felt since she is the first wife, she felt she
should do it.
How
he feels about her in his heart now?
That is for my heart.
Not for the newspaper. You just mentioned my heart, so why do you want to know?
Unless you would open my heart to see it yourself.
On
his three wives could being one of the reasons which ultimately led to the
kidney failure?
No, there was never a
problem with that. Having three wives does not affect my life in any way. It
was not like these women were staying together under one roof. When the stock
exchange crashed in 2006 and 2007, it really affected my finances. You can
imagine when you lost about forty million naira to the crash and you could only
retrieve four million naira.
That situation would
definitelyleave a devastating mark on your life. If you have what I had in
stock now, that’s about three timeswhat I lost to the stock. So, having three
wives was not the problem I had. MKO Abiola had more than three wives, but he
lived comfortably with them before he died.
When
you were growing up, did you actually see yourself having more than one wife?
What exactly was the attraction?
That’s what I can’t
explain now, because when I was growing up, my plan was that I was not going to
get married. I had figured it out that I was just going to have children one way
and move on with my life. There are some women that are never going to get
married in life. That does mean they would not have the best of their lives.
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