
Veteran stand-up comedian Atunyota Akpobome, popularly known as Ali Baba, has opened up the birth of his triplets which went viral recently.
ย Ali Baba spoke on his becoming a father much later in life on Monday in a podcast session, Leadership Podcast with Stephen Akintayo.
He said: โMadam had always wanted to have a son. She had two daughters and we talked about it. So, I told her I didnโt want to be having school runs, joining Wizkid and attending PTA meetings. One truth is the net becomes empty when all the children have to go abroad to study and the discussion comes up again.
โBy the way, she had said wanted to adopt two or three children to take care of them. One day, she then said instead of adopting, letโs just have our own. I was like ok but the way the economy is and she replied you said the economy is bad, I said yes and she said, have you stopped paying house rent for people I said no. She asked again, โHave you stopped paying school fees and I said no.
โWe have a foundation- the Purple Girl Foundation taking care of over 120 people in schools from primary to university. Beyond that foundation, we have people we are paying school fees for and people we are sending to law school. So, she said all those people you are helping, do you remember the economy?
โShe said if you think about it, the reason why God put you in this position might be more than taking care of yourself. So I said okay, letโs do one and she now said if we do one you know that IVFD fails so letโs do two.โ
Ali Baba further explained that he agreed to fertilise two eggs based on his wife’s request.
He said: โSo, I said, letโs do two and then one of the eggs slitted into two and that was how it became three. When it became three she and the doctor knew that it had become three but they didnโt want to tell me. So they they were like sometimes when we ask God for one million, he gives you two million. When God want to bless you you donโt know how he wants to bless you, he will just do.
โSo, I was like where is this going to? She said the eggs split into twoโ and I said it was two we were looking for and she said it now three. Then we have three boys.โ
On April 1, he announced the birth of his triplets.
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