Bimbo Akintola
By Richard Otega Enyeh
Popular Nollywood actress, Bimbo Akintola has revealed why she has decided to remain unmarried at 54.
Akintola, in a recent interview with actor, Emmanuel Ehumadu, stated that she had yet to marry because her forever love passed.
“Are you married? “No”, she said when Ehumadu asked about her marital status.
Quizzed on the reason she has yet to be married, the actress stated: “He died…I don’t talk about it, but he died. Do you know how long it took me to find him, a very long time but he is gone.
“I don’t believe that you get married for marriage’s sake. If you are not going to be truthful to your vows, then why are you doing it? The person wey me fit do forever for don die. He’s gone. I am not saying that you can’t have two or three loves in your life and times, but do you know how long it took me to find that one that I knew I could stay with?”
She added: “I am also too old to understand red flags when I see them, and I think I am too old to manage and say I am doing something just to make other people happy. Who are those people? To make the world happy, I should marry someone so that the world can say you don do am?
“It doesn’t make sense, I don’t care, I really don’t care. No, I won’t do that for anybody. I am always truthful to myself because at the end of the day, if someone dies, when you stand in front of God, na you and God, one on one you go answer the question, nobody go answer the question for you. So, I am living my life in all truthfulness, being truthful to myself.”
The actress also disclosed that she believes in marriage.
However, the man she wanted to do it with had passed.
“I do, but the person I did it with is dead. He is gone. I had not seen anybody else and before I saw him, I thought it would never happen. I had dated, but I have never seen myself marrying those people. I didn’t see forever with those people.”
However, Bimbo Akintola acknowledged that if she found a man that she could spend the rest of her life with, she was going to remarry, irrespective of her age.
“If I ever see someone and I see forever with that person, I will do it even if I am 82, I will do it but I won’t do it if I don’t see that person.
“I am not able to just stress myself out for anything. Do you know how difficult marriage is? It is difficult, it is very difficult and you will now go on and do it with someone you know you can’t do forever with.”
