By Olamide Jasanya
We haven’t heard the last of actress Uche Ogbodo‘s split with her fiancée, Ato Ubby, as her father-in-law has accused her of lying about the true state of their union.
According to Movie Moments, Ato, who hadn’t been reached since the story went viral, was grateful for the chance to air his opinion.
‘I am a veteran journalist, thank you for balancing this story by calling us because we were shocked when people started calling us to say Uche has denied marrying our son’, Ato’s father said.
He revealed that contrary to Ogbodo’s claim, the two have been married ever since his son paid her bride price months ago. ‘We went to her village and paid the bride price and after that she was still bearing her fathers name, I don’t know why she didn’t change it. If she is saying now that she is not married then she has divorced herself. Marriage is not by force’, he stated.
He claimed Ogbodo’s reasons for ending her relationship with his son were untrue: ‘I am the father of Ato and I am telling you now that what she told you is a lie. I am a servant of God and I cannot tell lies. If she has problems with my son this is the wrong way to go about it but we leave it all to Go’.
A few days ago, Ogbodo was reported to have called off the 10-month engagement, explaining that their union wasn’t legal, ‘It wasn’t really marriage yet because it wasn’t fully formalised, we were still in the process of formalising it when all hell broke loose, so I was merely engaged to be married to Ato Ubby’, she told blogger Stella Dimoko Korkus.
Reports however say their separation may not have been due to ‘lies and deceit’ as Ogbodo claimed but because of Ato’s ill health, as he is reportedly recovering from a recent brain surgery.