Veteran Nigerian actress, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, has addressed the alleged feud with her colleague, Genevieve Nnaji.
Speaking about the popular assertion, Omotola stated that she doesn’t need to be ‘besties’ with her colleague.
Addressing the long-running speculation in a recent interview on Yanga FM, Omotola, who clarified that they were never fighting, noted that “people don’t need to be best friends.”
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While accusing fans of pitching them against each other, Omotola said, “Na them start the quarrel before we know say we dey quarrel. So, we have to catch up with the quarrel. There was no quarrel.”
The interviewer further asked: “Was there anything like say una been quarrel wey lasted for twenty years before EJ movie?”
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Omotola replied, “People don’t need to be best friends, but we talked. Like behind the film, we dey talk normally.”
She continued, “You know the same thing that they do with all these music stars, na we dem take start all those things that time. Na, we be the practice that time.”
Omotola went further to say, “You know all this Wizkid, Davido, now that they have taken it to a different level, na we be the first one now. Really, na them start the quarrel before we know say we dey quarrel. So, we have to catch up with the quarrel. There was no quarrel.”
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In the latter part of the interview, the veteran movie described what might have sparked allegations of their feud.
She went forward to say, “We were young, everybody dey do her own thing now. You know how the industry is. You know, they go pitch you against this person, talk say na this one be the hottest girl, na that one be the hottest girl. So, that kind of tension go dey normally, but people they read am as other things.”
