One question that had hitherto begged for an answer within Ibadan’s social circles is the paternity of Aramide Adenle’s daughter. Fuji music maestro, Alhaji Wasiu Ayinde Marshal, better known as K1 De Ultimate has however confirmed that he is the father.
The long kept secret was revealed by the Talazo Fuji Messiah himself at Aramide’s mother’s burial ceremony in Ibadan recently.
The party, which had in attendance almost everyone that matters in the Ibadan, Lagos and Abuja social establishments, locked down the Eleyele-Ijokodo axis where it held.
It was in the presence of guests who turned out in their thousands that K1, who was the musician on bandstand, dropped the bombshell. And he did it in grand style. Not a few people were surprised, especially those found it hard to believe that Aramide, a celebrated fashion designer and K1 were that close, not to talk of being in an amorous relationship.
In his characteristic manner, King Wasiu Ayinde Marshal made it enthusiastically dramatic. Only those who waited till the tail end of the party however got the privilege of being informed firsthand by the musician, that he is indeed the father of Aramide’s beautiful daughter, Iradah.
K1 changed the beat at a point and sang one of his hit songs of the ’80s, “se b’emi ni baba re, emi lo ngbo bukata lori mother e o, Iradah Oluwa omo emi Omogbolahan” (I am your father, I am the one providing your mother’s needs, Iradah, I, Omohbolahan’s daughter).
He went further to idiomatically describe Aramide as the main ingredient of his perfume that he applies always. K1 didn’t stop at that, he went on to appreciate Aramide, her daughter and the family by spraying strictly dollar notes. Even when his boys tried to change the status quo by bringing bales of Naira notes in place of the dollars he was spraying, the Fuji lord frowned and insisted on spraying dollars.
