2013 has come and almost run out, how would you access the year?
It has not been a rewarding year for me. I only thank God that I am still alive.
Q: It was reported days back that you have put this mansion for sale, how true is it?
A: It's true. When you don't have money, you use whatever you have to get what you want. I don't
have money, and I need money. I can't just be looking at the building, I can't eat it. I need to convert it to money. But not the whole property that I want to sell. It's just this uncompleted structure directly opposite us (shows reporter the building). I need to make that clarification so that people out there won't be misinformed. I am only selling part and not all the property here. This is where I live.
Q: A couple of months back, it was reported that you're seriously ill. They even said it was a strange ailment and that you're hospitalized in a private hospital and all that. What's the truth about the whole thing?
A: What happened was that most of your people don't do their investigations very well before writing their stories. I left hospital a long time before they reported that I was sick. They even said a governor's wife visited me at the hospital and when she was leaving her car killed somebody along Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway and many other things that are not true. I had left the hospital for about two months back. Even the day the story was out, I was in Osogbo, Osun State performing at an event alongside Musiliu Haruna Ishola. The effect of this, is that if anybody wanted to invite such an artiste for a show, they would consider meticulously because they may also believe the person was truly sick. That's unfair.
Q: What was the nature of the sickness?
A: I had ulcer and typhoid.
Q: But we learnt it was a strange ailment and not all that medical…
A: (Cuts in) Yes, it's a strange ailment. It's spiritual. That's the best way of describing it. But I thank God I am still alive. My health condition then was worsened by the poor economic situation of Nigeria, nothing is working. Everything is paralysed. I kept thinking to the extent that I wanted to sell my property. If the government had not turned everything upside down, people like myself are not supposed to be suffering like this.
I released a lot of albums to inform Nigerians about the happenings in the country and even beyond. In an ideal society, the government owes people like us a great responsibility.
