“I’m proud of him,” – Asake’s father makes u-turn after his son agreed to buy him a house, settle his medical bills

Fatai Odunsi, the father of top Nigerian singer, Ahmed Ololade, popularly known as Asake, has said his son has agreed to buy him a house, settle his medical bills and take care of his daughter.

Odunsi aka Malo who is left paralysed in some parts of his body after suffering from a stroke and being unable to pay his medical bills called out Asake in a viral video on Thursday asking Nigerians to beg the artiste to assist him.

This is as Asake’s alleged Babymama, identified as Adijat, also accused the singer of neglecting her and their daughter, Zeenat.

In an interview with digital creator, Aki Abolade, popularly known as Mrlilgaga, on Sunday, Odunsi was seen praying for the singer as he expressed happiness, saying Asake had agreed to take care of all the issues raised.

Speaking in Yoruba, he expressed pride in Asake and showered him with prayers.

He added that he called out Asake because it had been a long time since he saw him.

‘’He (Asake) has said they should look for a house that he will buy for me and they have been looking for it since yesterday (Saturday). He has started doing it,” he said in Yoruba in the video posted by @Mrlilgaga on Instagram on Sunday.

“I’m proud of him,” he said when asked if he was proud of his son. “He will not be unfortunate, nothing will happen to him, and he will not go down.”

Speaking on why he was angry with his son, Odunsi said, “It was because I had not seen him in a long time. His mother ought to ask him, ‘When was the last time you saw your father?’ That was what infuriated me but we have settled everything. There is no fight anymore,” he said as he sang in proverbs, denoting that there was no fight anymore.

“He has reached out to me and he has said he will do everything I wanted,” he said as he sang again. “We have settled our issues. He has called and spoken with me, there is no issue again.”

Asake came under fire over the weekend as netizens and residents in the Isale Eko area of Lagos expressed disappointment over the artiste’s perceived neglect of his ailing father, Odunsi.

On Friday, a viral video that featured Odunsi, who identified himself as Asake’s father, stirred controversy on social media about the Lonely at the Top crooner.

In the video, Odunsi claimed he had not seen Asake since 2022, when his health began to deteriorate, and that he felt the need to publicly seek help.

Odunsi further alleged that despite Asake’s fame and success, the singer had not been financially supportive of him.