Daniel Etim-Effiong says he married his wife, Toyosi, after his ex-girlfriend shunned his marriage request.
In a recent conversation with Chude Jideonwo, Etim-Effiong explained that he wanted to settle down, but his then-girlfriend wasn’t ready.
He stated that he then left South Africa for Nigeria, where he met his wife, who was the production manager of a project he was also working on.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.’”
Etim-Effiong got married to his wife, Toyosi, in November 2017, a year after they met. The couple welcomed their first child, a baby girl, in January 2019.
