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According to her, the men left her after seeking spiritual advice about their relationship.
Speaking in a video shared on Instagram, the 55-year-old singer recounted how, as a young woman ready for marriage, things always took a strange turn each time she brought a man close to meeting her parents.
“When I became an adult and it was getting to a stage that I needed to take men to meet my parents, something strange always came up. The men would just say they needed to go and pray about it and afterward, they would stop reaching out to me,” Alabi said.
She said the rejection usually came with spiritual undertones. On one occasion, she learned that a suitor had visited prophets who allegedly warned him against marrying her.
“One of our intermediaries once told me that one of the men had gone to meet prophets who told him I was not okay to be married to,” she said. “I can count like four men that stylishly left me. Would you then tell me not to thank God whenever I remember that?”
Alabi added that she eventually met the man who would become her husband through her boss at work. But even that encounter came with its own twist.
“The man promised to marry me, but I told him that’s what all men say. I told him to go and ask about me,” she recalled. “After he told my parents he would come for proper introduction, we stopped seeing each other. My father had already given out my hand in marriage to another suitor before he travelled.”
The gospel singer, who was previously married to Lekan Olaoye, with whom she had a daughter, Ayomikun is now married to Soji Alabi, her longtime producer and manager. The couple share three children.
Tope’s story, she said, is a testimony that God’s timing never fails.
“When I look back, I just thank God for how everything turned out. It was not easy, but it was worth it,” she concluded.
