19 years after, Sir Shina Peters accepts paternity of love child

Shina Peters' love child, Late Funmi Martins, Damilare Peters, SSP, Sir Shina Peters

The controversy over the much-talked-about paternity of Damilare, the love child between Afro-Juju music creator, Sir Shina Peters and late Nollywood actress, Olufunmilayo Anike Martins, may soon become a thing of the past.

The Afro-Juju crooner, while reacting to the paternity issue on an online TV platform, Opeyemi Entertainment Promotion, thanked all gists lovers who brought the issue to public domain and all the good parents who waded into the matter.

He said, “I want to thank all good parents that expressed concern about the issue. But I want to say that people should not judge me by one-sided story. I am 60 year-old now and there are some things that I will not want to expose about the matter. There was a time Mide brought him to me but she never allowed him into house not until I was seeing her off that I saw Damilare at the gate, she never discussed anything about him with me.

“How do people think I will abandon Damilare when I have taken care of many children that were not even my biological children. I will from now begin to do whatever is expected of me to make him great in life, in fact he must be properly educated like my other siblings. We have been talking and I learnt he wrote the JAMB examination twice without result, I will arrange for him to have good results and he told me he wanted to join the entertainment industry, I will encourage him but his education first.”

It would be recalled that some friends of late Funmi Martins took to social media to castigate SSP when it was rumoured that he recently described Damilare as his child. One of such was Anike Adejare, a former staff of Aina Kushoro, who runs Highway Studio at Idumota, Lagos.

She revealed that SSP struggled to date late Martins and that it was him that rented a three bedroom apartment for her at Iju area of Lagos where he allegedly introduced her as Mrs. Peters.

She also hinted that SSP, who also adopted Mide Funmi Martin’s then as Funmi Peters, enrolled her at the Ogun State University (OSU), Ago Iwoye, where SSP used to visit her

Anike added that SSP was informed about the birth of Damilare and that some of his family members and band boys were present during his naming ceremony. She stated further that the late Funmi Martin’s was a one-man woman and never dated two men at the same time, noting that she was however surprised that Shina Peters could deny the paternity of Damilare who has been staying with late Funmi Martins brother, fondly called, Daddy Deji.

A source who claimed to know much about the love life that existed between the late Funmi Martins and Shina Peters, disclosed that what allegedly transpired between SSP and his adopted daughter at Opa Aro Hotel, led to the shock that eventually killed her.

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