The
name Tope Alabi has been so synonymous with gospel music even when some
of your contemporaries have veered off to another genre or even stopped
music entirely, what has been the staying power all this while?
I
see God in whatever I do. Even if God doesn’t answer you now, it
doesn’t mean you should stop working for Him. If He has called you, that
means you are so important to Him. I am working for Him and I am just
privileged to work for Him. I don’t want anything to distract me from
working for Him. It is not as if I am doing gospel for the money, I sing
because I want people to hear the good news.
Your husband has been supportive; he is even your manager
He
is no longer my manager. I have a new manager. He is the marketer now.
He is my boyfriend and the father of my children. He is the small boy in
the house that must eat first even if no other person has eaten.
But most men don’t want their wives to be in the spotlight, how come he supports you like this?
I
just thank God for his life. You can imagine, when we go for
programmes, I would be given a seat in the front row while my husband
would be given a seat at the back. Imagine! I would always tell him to
come and sit in front so I can go to the back but he would never agree.
He would ask me if he was Tope Alabi. God has been guiding us. How would
I have managed without a husband like this?
Where did you meet him?
I
met him in the studio. He was a studio rat. He worked anywhere in the
studio. He never went out of the studio. He was such a tiny man when we
met. But see him now, I have packaged him. He has also packaged me as
well. I am more beautiful now. We met 19 years ago. We got married five
years after.
A story that generated
some kind of controversy is the issue you had with the late Pastor
Ajanaku, did you ever make up before he died?
On
that issue, I would rather say no comment. When God is working in your
life, anything can happen along the line. The Israelites faced
turbulence and eventually got out of it. We need people who are
spirit-filled to just fold their arms and watch what God will do.
Some people say you are happy he is no more…
God
doesn’t like anybody who rejoices over a friend or enemy’s death. I
cannot be an enemy of what God created. I can only be an enemy of God’s
enemy. If you don’t like God, certainly, I will not like you. But I
still say no comment on that issue.
Does it mean you will not tell us what really caused the problem between you two?
No
comment. I just want people to say what they want to say. You are free.
Your heart is not in my heart. People can speculate. People can feel
whatever they want to feel.
But we learnt he anointed another singer as his spiritual child and it got you so upset…
I
wasn’t there. I don’t know. So if I wasn’t there, how would I now ‘put
mouth’ in something I don’t know about? I can’t say what I don’t know.
But did you feel bad that they said he had replaced you, even if you weren’t there, you must have heard it?
I
cannot feel bad. I didn’t feel bad. I can bring somebody today and I
decide to bring that person up. Anybody is free to do whatever he/she
feels like doing.
It was learned you also stopped attending his church…
Actually,
I was never a member of his church but people don’t know this. I am
just a woman who loves to help ministries. I go to the church and I give
money, not small money. I can work for six months and I take my tithe
to him just to bless his ministry. I do that in other ministries. I can
minister in churches without collecting money. I know what I have passed
through. I know where I am coming from. I want to bless God and thank
Him.
The first day I ministered in his
church, he gave me money but I didn’t collect it. I never collected
money from him in my life, but I have donated millions to his church and
so many other churches. I have so many people living in my house that I
don’t even know their parents; and I just help them. I pay their fees.
My husband helps the widows, we donate to orphanages. We just want to
help.
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