Yeni Kuti speaks on her brother’s former marriage
In a recent interview with media personality Chude Jideonwo, Yeni disclosed Funke left the marriage as a result of a “communication breakdown.”
Yeni Kuti, a media personality and the older sister of Nigerian singer Femi Kuti, has revealed the reason for the split between the artist and his ex-wife Funke.
In a recent interview with media personality Chude Jideonwo, Yeni disclosed Funke left the marriage as a result of a “communication breakdown.”
She mentioned that Funke regretted her choice because she later acknowledged that she probably wouldn’t have divorced the artist if she had known then what she knows now.
“I think the divorce between Femi and Funke was a result of a communication breakdown. Even now, Funke says that if she had known then what she knows now, she probably wouldn’t have left the marriage. So, I believe it was a communication breakdown.”
“You know, our people can be quite malicious. If they see something good, their focus becomes how to bring it down. Many people have been advising her. Just like me, people say, ‘Why are you still dancing for your brother? Go and form your own band.’ Which band do I want to form? Did I ever come to you saying I want to form a band?” Yeni said.
Yeni Kuti recently confessed that despite his adultery, she is unable to leave him.
Yeni, who lost her spouse Femi Segun to death’s cold hands in 2014, declared she would not leave her partner despite the fact that he had an extramarital affair.
She argued that staying with an unfaithful partner was a personal decision and that she shouldn’t be held accountable for it.
Yeni went on to say that because her late father, the famed Afrobeat musician Fela Anklápó Kuti, had 27 wives and her mother did not file for divorce from him, she is similarly unable to leave her boyfriend for another woman.
