Actor Daniel Etim-Effiong has disclosed that after his ex-girlfriend turned down his proposal of marriage, he met his wife, Toyosi.
Daniel claimed in an interview with Chude Jideonwo that his ex-girlfriend didn’t want to be married right away and had plans to attend graduate school in the US.
He met Toyosi on a project where she was the production manager, and he was disappointed.
He openly expressed his desire to get married, and Toyosi responded positively, leading to their marriage.
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. 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. 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. 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.’”
