The
controversy between gospel singer Tope Alabi and her late “Spiritual
Father” Pastor Ajanaku is one that a lot of people want to know the
truth about. Tope Alabi shares some in an interview:
The
name Tope Alabi has been so synonymous with gospel music even when some
of your contemporaries have veered off to another genre or even stopped
music entirely, what has been the staying power all this while?
I
see God in whatever I do. Even if God doesn’t answer you now, it
doesn’t mean you should stop working for Him. If He has called you, that
means you are so important to Him. I am working for Him and I am just
privileged to work for Him. I don’t want anything to distract me from
working for Him. It is not as if I am doing gospel for the money, I sing
because I want people to hear the good news.
Your husband has been supportive; he is even your manager…
He is no
longer my manager. I have a new manager. He is the marketer now. He is
my boyfriend and the father of my children. He is the small boy in the
house that must eat first even if no other person has eaten.
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But most men don’t want their wives to be in the spotlight, how come he supports you like this?
I just
thank God for his life. You can imagine, when we go for programmes, I
would be given a seat in the front row while my husband would be given a
seat at the back. Imagine! I would always tell him to come and sit in
front so I can go to the back but he would never agree. He would ask me
if he was Tope Alabi. God has been guiding us. How would I have managed
without a husband like this?
Another
story that generated some kind of controversy is the issue you had with
the late Pastor Ajanaku, did you ever make up before he died?On
that issue, I would rather say no comment. When God is working in your
life, anything can happen along the line. The Israelites faced
turbulence and eventually got out of it. We need people who are
spirit-filled to just fold their arms and watch what God will do.
Some people say you are happy he is no more…
God
doesn’t like anybody who rejoices over a friend or enemy’s death. I
cannot be an enemy of what God created. I can only be an enemy of God’s
enemy. If you don’t like God, certainly, I will not like you. But I
still say no comment on that issue.
Does it mean you will not tell us what really caused the problem between you two?
No
comment. I just want people to say what they want to say. You are free.
Your heart is not in my heart. People can speculate. People can feel
whatever they want to feel.
But we learnt he anointed another singer as his spiritual child and it got you so upset…
I wasn’t
there. I don’t know. So if I wasn’t there, how would I now ‘put mouth’
in something I don’t know about? I can’t say what I don’t know.
But did you feel bad that he replaced you, even if you weren’t there, you must have heard it?
I cannot
feel bad. I didn’t feel bad. I can bring somebody today and I decide to
bring that person up. Anybody is free to do whatever he/she feels like
doing.
We learnt you also stopped attending his church…
Actually, I
was never a member of his church but people don’t know this. I am just a
woman who loves to help ministries. I go to the church and I give
money, not small money. I can work for six months and I take my tithe to
him just to bless his ministry. I do that in other ministries. I can
minister in churches without collecting money. I know what I have passed
through. I know where I am coming from. I want to bless God and thank
Him.
The first
day I ministered in his church, he gave me money but I didn’t collect
it. I never collected money from him in my life, but I have donated
millions to his church and so many other churches. I have so many people
living in my house that I don’t even know their parents; and I just
help them. I pay their fees. My husband helps the widows, we donate to
orphanages. We just want to help.
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