When popstar, Blameless Idibia, aka 2baba, introduced that his marriage to actress and fact display superstar, Annie (nee Macaulay), had ended, it unlocked a flurry of accusations and counter-accusations. TOFARATI IGE takes a have a look at the genesis of the as soon as admired union and the intrigues that marked its chequered historical past chief to its anticlimactic finish
The announcement
On Sunday, January 26, 2025, 2baba ended a fairy wool that many had come to like for years. In a terse put up on social media, he introduced that he and Annie, his spouse of just about 12 years, had long past their free techniques.
He wrote, “Hello to my beautiful people of all federations. Well, this thing I have to say is short but also long…I and Annie Macaulay have been separated for a while now. And currently filed (sic) divorce…I would grant a press release soon to say my story…not because it is anyone’s right to know about my personal life; but because I love my people and I need them to know my innocence or offense. Stay blessed, my people. I love you all.”
Regardless that the put up was once then deleted, with the declare that his account have been hacked, the singer spill out a video, announcing that he was once the one that made the preliminary put up.
Backward and forward
A supply similar to the couple advised Saturday Beats completely that some contributors of the singer’s workforce weren’t happy that he made the tips family at that year. In keeping with the supply, in a bid to hold out some mode of wear regulate, they needed to declare that his account was once hacked.
“The ones similar to the Idibia public know that each one has no longer been properly for once in a while. They have got simply been patching issues up. As a question of truth, some contributors of his workforce weren’t glad that the singer made the announcement in that approach on Sunday. That’s why someone else temporarily posted from the similar account, claiming that it have been hacked.
“However it is advisable to see that 2baba himself then posted every other video keeping up that his account was once no longer hacked.
“Alternatively, they have got reached an oath that he must no longer put up the rest, and no longer serve any interview.
“I am close to both 2baba and Annie, and I love them both. I don’t want to say anything that might be misconstrued to mean that I’m taking sides with one person against the other.”
Buttressing our supply’s declare, Tiwa Savage’s former husband and supervisor, Tunji Balogun, aka Teebillz, in an interview with Daddy Freeze, mentioned that the singer must no longer be blamed for the motion he took, as a result of he was once in the most efficient place to grasp what he was once dealing with in his marriage.
The use of his parting tale an illustration, Teezillz described 2baba as a pipe that have been withstanding power for goodbye till he may just no longer rush it once more.
The popstar and his African Queen
Lofty and lanky, with the glance of an blameless youngster (negative pun meant), 2face (as he was once upcoming recognized) was once each and every lady’s dream. His silky resonance added to his attraction, and it was once negative miracle that tune fanatics— each female and male— may just no longer get plethora of him and his songs.
Previously with the prevalent boy band, Plantashun Boiz, 2face and his former team contributors— Augustine Ahmedu (Blackfaze) and Chibuzor Oji (Faze)— held sway from the overdue 90s to the early 2000s earlier than they went their free techniques.
However, it was once upcoming he went solo, that 2face actually embraced superstardom. His debut solo book, ‘Face 2 Face’, crowned charts and garnered world acclaim. By means of a long way essentially the most prevalent tune at the book— ‘African Queen’— additional cemented his situation as a heartthrob and intercourse image, in particular amongst dim ladies in all places the sector.
It was once within the video for ‘African Queen’ that many were given to grasp concerning the younger singer’s upcoming female friend, Annie Macaulay, who was once additionally a budding actress.
They gave the look to be a fit made in heaven and plenty of have been enamoured by means of their love tale. It was once reported that Annie was once 2face’s past love, and that they’d been concerned proper from when she was once a young person. It was once additionally alleged that she contributed a dozen, together with funds, to the expansion of his occupation. Thus, many naturally assumed that they might proceed i’m sick the aisle one day. It was once simplest only a subject of year, their admirers reckoned.
Day of child moms
Alternatively, like a Nollywood film, the affection tale quickly evolved a number of surprising twists.
Gossip magazines and tabloids had a garden moment reporting that 2face had impregnated a prevalent makeup artiste and socialite, Pero Adeniyi. Slightly had the family recovered from the “shock” earlier than it was once reported that the singer had put every other lady, Sunmbo Adeoye (nee Ajaba), within the public method.
All of the generation, Annie was once nonetheless within the image and plenty of in their lovers and admirers may just no longer assemble sense of the bizarre drama that gave the look to be unravelling earlier than their visuals. Amidst the intrigues, Annie additionally had a daughter for the singer.
Some years i’m sick the layout, the child rely had climbed to an astonishing six youngsters from 3 other ladies. By means of this year, 2face had change into the butt of jokes of comedians, actors or even fellow singers. In some quarters, he was once even held up as a poster boy for promiscuity and recklessness within the leisure trade.
A fairytale marriage ceremony
Like a well-scripted Hollywood romance blockbuster, 2face and Annie were given married in 2013, making many excited on their behalf.
It gave the look to be the very best climax for a love tale that have been marked by means of a number of intrigues.
A number of admirers of the coupled expressed pleasure that real love had it sounds as if prevailed. Annie was once hailed for sticking to 2face amidst the child mama dramas, despite the fact that she met him first. At the alternative hand, 2face was once lauded for creating a truthful lady out of Annie at a year when many had already subjected her to ridicule.
Their fairy-tale marriage ceremony was once in both parts — Nigeria and Dubai. The normal leg of the nuptials took playground in Annie’s local Akwa Ibom Surrounding, and it was once properly attended by means of a number of celebrities and dignitaries, together with the upcoming governor and stream Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, who proficient the lovebirds a Toyota Prado SUV.
The second one a part of the marriage took playground in far flung Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The development which held on the Jumeirah Seaside Lodge was once additionally properly attended by means of a number of celebrities who travelled from Nigeria to praise with the couple on their particular moment.
The wedding upcoming
All gave the look to be going properly within the couple’s marriage for a few years, with family shows of consideration and assistance for each and every alternative’s careers.
Regardless that there have been studies that Annie and Pero didn’t take to each other, co-parenting gave the look to be running nice, as 2face was once infrequently pictured with the children he had with each Pero and Sunmbo. By means of upcoming, Sunmbo had went away and had were given married to a cleric, Pastor David Adeoye. Alternatively, Pero was once nonetheless unmarried, and resources similar to the couple mentioned that was once the cause of Annie’s worry. They alleged that she continuously stored an optic on Pero, who she was once suspicious of.’
Her hesitancy gave the look to be validated when in 2015, an image of 2face planting a passionate kiss on Pero’s lips went viral at the Web.
Reacting to the image, Annie spill out a remark pronouncing, “I’m acutely aware of the pictures circulating (sic) the Web with my husband and Pero Adeniyi. I wish to climate formally that I used to be no longer in that range at that year and subsequently there was once negative war of words between myself and Pero Adeniyi.
“Pero Adeniyi and this non permanent indiscretion pose negative warning in any respect to my courting with my husband. As a question of truth, for all of our youngsters’s’ sake, I do inspire cordial relationships with events concerned.
“This year, my focus is solely on God, family and my career which doesn’t give me the luxury of paying attention to any distractions.”
In but every other plot twist, the pair perceived to mend fences when at a “reconciliation meeting” that took playground at Ikeja, Lagos, in 2018, each ladies made up and hugged in a heat embody. In a video of the incident that circulated on social media, 2baba may well be clear crying profusely, clearly glad that two of the remarkable ladies in his presen had yes to bury the hatchet and go on.
Cracks seem
Like a TV layout with a number of seasons, modest did many know that the drama had no longer ended.
In September 2021, Annie took to social media to assert that 2face had travelled to america to be with Pero and his children, upcoming he lied to her that he was once going for a “shoot”.
She wrote, “What kind of man takes his kids to Disney and spends nights in the same apartment with his kids and their mother? How many times have you gone to see your kids with Pero and she stays with you and the kids under the same roof for nights?”
“I try to stay gracious. You are not the first man on the planet to have kids by different women. You can do better. Everything I do is to show the good human that you are,” she additionally wrote.
In a resonance recording that went viral on the year, Annie may well be heard angrily vowing to “scatter everything” as a result of 2baba’s supervisor and cousin had conspired to backup her husband be with Pero in the United States.
Denying Annie’s claims that 2baba was once along with her, Pero then mentioned in an interview with prevalent journalist, Stella Dimoko-Korkus, “I heard he got here to The usa in August however we didn’t see each and every alternative. It’s no longer each and every year he involves The usa that we see. His brother lives there, so it’s imaginable that he could have long past there to stick with him.
“My boyfriend was once even with me the endmost year I heard 2Baba was once intended to be with me and I used to be somewhat surprised and puzzled if there are two Peros.
“When that story broke, I got so many calls that woke me up that I had to make calls to find out what was wrong. I called his manager and he told me, ‘Pero this is not about you’. If it was not about me, why is my name mentioned?”
She additionally mentioned that she had maintained a distance from 2baba as a result of Annie. “I had not even spoken to him for about four months before I was woken up with calls to go and see I am trending online because Annie mentioned that he had run off to stay with me in America. We don’t really talk and we are not friends. It is because of this same reason that I have stayed away from him,” she mentioned.
Pero went directly to sue Annie to the track of N200m for libel and defamation.
The singer’s brother, Charles, additionally lashed out at Annie, claiming that she have been opposed to his public contributors, and that she was once frequently at loggerheads with 2baba over the ultimate’s courting with Pero and their children.
In one in all a number of posts on Instagram, he wrote, “Your husband has his wahala (bother) however is that committing to be your strategy to this difficult condition presen has thrown at you? Is it whilst you stab him within the chest generation he sleeps over a decision from Pero difficult he speaks to his children in the course of the night time because of the year too much from the United States for instance that you’re going to have relief. When he’s useless, upcoming what? You could be proper and we might be incorrect upcoming what?’’
He additionally alleged that Annie mistreated 2baba’s mom, and at all times sought after to stock him clear of his siblings and alternative public contributors as a result of she conceived that they have been upcoming his cash.
Next the mud had settled, Annie went again to social media to apologise for her outbursts. She wrote, “To my beautiful mothers… my amazing mother and my beautiful mother in- law…I am sooo sorry I let both of you down… no mother should go through the kind of pain that you both felt…I am really sorry (I am still your baby). I am far from perfect, but I have decided to choose peace, and I wanna (sic) do better, given the chance.”
Crowd situation
Revealing a deeply fractured public, Annie’s elder brother, Knowledge, additionally took to social media to allege that she presented him to illicit medicine.
Showing baggy and barefoot in a video that went viral on social media, Knowledge additionally alleged that Annie was once manipulative, and had refused to backup him upcoming a number of pleas. He additionally hinted that although he labored as her supervisor for once in a while, he didn’t get his due remuneration.
It’s pertinent to notice, alternatively, that Knowledge then claimed that his allegations have been fake, and have been brought about by means of melancholy and frustration.
The truth display that penniless the camel’s again
Pace there were many feedback, research and evaluations shared about what may have been liable for the deterioration of the wedding, some have pointed an accusing finger on the fact display, ‘Young, Famous and African’, which Annie these days seems in.
Some contributors of the family accumulation the opinion that the truth display helped to amplify the cracks within the marriage.
In fresh weeks, upcoming the 3rd season of the display premiered on January 15, 2025, many netizens had speculated that Annie was once hooked on medicine, pointing to her “twitching hands, erratic behavior and sometimes unkempt look” as evidences.
In probably the most previous episodes, she famous that she have been humiliated and ashamed severally because of 2baba’s youngsters out of doors wedlock. She additionally expressed dismay that although she met him “before everybody else”, her first kid was once his 5th.
Appearing religion that they might keep married for the left-overs in their lives, Annie ended the dialog by means of pronouncing, “It’s all pain, hurt…but, like I always say, that the good times are so much more. And, I have forever with him to make up for the bad times.”
At the 10th annualannually in their marriage in 2023, the couple renewed their vows, with 2baba expressing gratitude for his or her courting.
The aftermath
In a put up in a while upcoming 2baba’s official separation announcement, Stella Dimoko-Korkus reported that Annie was once these days in a rehabilitation centre, scuffling with drug habit.
She wrote, “Actress, Annie Idibia, is in a very bad state and allegedly currently in rehab. Insiders reveal that it is very bad and the two people allegedly currently taking care of her are singer, Tiwa Savage; and media girl, Toke Makinwa. May God heal her. This is a developing story.”
In the meantime, Toke had additionally berated 2baba for making the announcement on-line. Reacting to the singer’s put up, she wrote, “This is wrong on all levels, and you should be ashamed of yourself for bringing this here. Bring it on. If you think she’s alone, let me tell you here that you’ll have to fight all of us.”
In every other put up, she added, “I’m no longer one for extra communicate, however what’s incorrect is incorrect, and as a girl, for those who take a seat at the fence in this one, if it misses you, it’ll contact your daughter or any feminine on your public.
“No one is innocent, and if you want to bring the media into it, knowing what is happening, we would fight for her.”