Daniel Etim-Effiong, a well-known Nollywood actor, has disclosed that he wed Toyosi after his former lover turned down his proposal.
Etim-Effiong recently told Chude Jideonwo that he wanted to be married but his ex-girlfriend wasn’t prepared.
After that, he said, he departed South Africa for Nigeria, where he met his wife, who was also working on a project as the production manager.
Recall how Etim-Effiong married Toyosi in November 2017, one year after they first met. In January 2019, the couple had a baby girl, their first child.
Etim-Effiong said, “I think two things came together to prepare me to marry my wife. At that time in my life, I was tired of dealing with several relationships. But I had a girlfriend at that time, and I told the girl that I think I am ready to get married, but she wasn’t ready. We were in South Africa at the time; she wasn’t a Nigerian woman.
“So, I told her that I wanted to get married, but she wasn’t ready. She said she had plans to go for graduate school in the United States, and she didn’t want to, for lack of a better word, be tied. And I was disappointed like, what is she talking about? We could do so many things together. At that time, I was ready for marriage. Anyone who was with me at that time had to answer the question, ‘Do you want to get married?’ Like I did ask my girlfriend that time, and she declined.
“And then, it coincided with coming back to Nigeria to be on a project that my wife was the production manager of. We had been talking before that time, but we met when we both came to Nigeria. It was her first job in Nigeria when she came back from New York. And then we met, and we started to talk. I had a long conversation with her. I told her that I really want to get married, and she said, ‘Let’s do it.’”