I will ensure my kids all marry Yoruba – Nigerian lecturer reacts to Davido’s Igbo roots, says he “behaves typical to type”

A lecturer with the Lagos State University, Adeyinka Bello, has said that all her children, who are 100% Yoruba, must marry Yoruba spouses. 

She stated this on Wednesday, May 21, while reacting to Davido’s “Igbo by blood” comment. 

The singer, whose paternal grandmother, Esther Nnenna Adeleke, was an Igbo woman, had made the declaration while responding to an X user who criticized his association with Igbos, suggesting that they will betray him. 

Reacting to the singer’s comment, Mrs Bello said he behaves ‘typical to type’, adding that she will ensure her kids marry Yoruba, even Yoruba Cuba or Brazil.

“I’m thoroughly, 100% Yoruba. No mix. My children are all Yoruba. Awon omomo mi gan must all be Yoruba. Of any tribe. No discrimination when it gets to that. Call me anything you want o. I don’t care,” she wrote. 

“Yesterday, a young beautiful lady came to my office, we got talking on her mission. She’s the representative of a big company in Nigeria wanting collaboration with our faculty. 

“Of course, because it’s specifically with my department, she was sent to me. We got talking on the collaboration, I found her very amiable, pretty and quite smart. 

“I then asked for her name, she dropped a Yoruba name! How excited I was. I immediately told her I don’t communicate with fellow Yoruba in English. She was taken aback. 

“I said unless we are in an officious situation, which was not so as we were speaking. She outrightly announced she’s Yoruba but more Delta as her mum is Delta woman and she even speaks her mum’s language and English… I said Adedamola Adetayo postulations are precise.

“I reckoned, minus 1. Why I would ensure my kids all marry Yoruba. Even Yoruba Cuba or Brazil, they must marry Yoruba.”