{"id":69478,"date":"2025-07-02T10:47:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T10:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69478"},"modified":"2025-07-02T10:47:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T10:47:49","slug":"2baba-apologises-to-wife-fans-over-controversial-monogamy-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/02\/2baba-apologises-to-wife-fans-over-controversial-monogamy-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"2Baba Apologises to Wife, Fans Over Controversial Monogamy Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian music icon Innocent Idibia, popularly known as 2Baba, has apologised to his wife, Natasha Osawaru, their children, and fans following backlash over a controversial comment he made during a recent podcast.<\/p>\n<p>On July 1, 2Baba stirred outrage after claiming that \u201ca man is not built to sexually be with one woman,\u201d suggesting that men may struggle with monogamy even while loving their partners deeply.<\/p>\n<p>The remark was widely criticised as an attempt to justify infidelity.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the uproar, 2Baba released a video apology, admitting he \u201cf**ked up\u201d with the statement and acknowledging that his words were hurtful. \u201cI know I\u2019m going to get cancelled,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m terribly sorry. My wife and kids didn\u2019t deserve to be dragged into this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He described the remark as \u201cunlegendary\u201d and unreflective of his true values.<\/p>\n<p>He also reaffirmed his love for his family and fans, promising to be more thoughtful moving forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; Nigerian music icon Innocent Idibia, popularly known as 2Baba, has apologised to his wife, Natasha Osawaru, their children, and fans following backlash over a controversial comment he made during a recent podcast. On July 1, 2Baba stirred outrage after claiming that \u201ca man is not built to sexually be with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":69479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69480,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69478\/revisions\/69480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}