Nollywood actor Samuel Ajibola, known as “Spiff,” has provided clarification on why his son bears a resemblance to former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Following an episode of cyberbullying in 2022 when Spiff shared images of his visit to Obasanjo, netizens pointed out the “striking resemblance” between his son and the former Nigerian leader.
In a recent interview with Channels TV, the actor addressed the online speculations, stating that claims of Obasanjo being his son’s “true father” were “misinformed.”
Former Nigerian president Obansanjo and the son of actor, Ajibola. source: Google
Ajibola explained that the picture causing the controversy captured his son just waking up from sleep, resulting in eye bags that made him resemble Obasanjo.
He stated: “The picture that caused the stir was the picture with me and my wife with the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.
“I’m the Youth Ambassador to the Youth Development Centre of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library. So I have a relationship with him. He is a huge mentor to my life.
“And so from time to time, I visit him. After I had my son, I took him there to see him. And people started assuming things. They said, ‘Okay, my wife was a secretary to the former President.’ It moved from that to, ‘Oh! He [Obasanjo] is the true father’ of my son.
I won’t deny it, I’m saying this live on air. In that picture, my son does look like him there. But there are circumstances around it. And it’s still a picture. It’s a still picture. It’s a second. It’s a moment of which my son was just waking up from sleep when we arrived. So he was just booting, and he had those eyebags. Those eyebags made him look like the former President. And people were claiming as if they were 100 per cent sure that the former President was the true father of my son.”
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