- An absentee father was shamed for trying to play father on his daughter’s wedding day
- Years ago, the man who was a member of the corps in Kwara state at the time got the bride’s mother pregnant and disappeared
- Unfortunately, he refused to take responsibility even when the lady’s family tracked him down at his residence to discuss the situation
A Nigerian lady recently had the opportunity to embarrass her biological father, who neglected her since she was born.
Despite not being a part of his daughter’s life, the man showed up on her wedding day to play the role of father of the bride.
Lady embarrasses absent father on wedding day
A user X identified as @ps_wears shared the story on the platform while narrating the drama that unfolded on the girl’s wedding day.
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Originally narrated how the man who was a member of the corps years ago, got the lady’s mother pregnant and disappeared.
After all efforts were made to locate the man’s family and speak with him, he still hasn’t come forward or take responsibility for his child.
However, after 29 years, when it was time for his daughter to get married, he was approached and asked to send a list of things reserved for fathers in his culture.
The absentee father sent a long list and started insisting that the marriage take place in Bayelsa instead of the Yoruba culture, which was her stepfather’s culture.
However, the lady refused and insisted that it be done in her stepfather’s culture. On her wedding day he arrived and sat at the high table.
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The bride refused to enter the wedding hall stating that she should leave the high table and sit among other guests but he refused and almost created a scene.
The bride’s stepfather intervened and called the police to arrest him. He was then held in the patrol car until the end of the wedding.
Ps_wears recounted:
βYou healed a woman 29 years ago as a member of the House in a village in Kwara. You left in style because you didn’t want the pregnancy. You never returned for your child or sent a penny to your child. The lady’s family tracked you down through the help of the school you posted and tracked down your family’s residence, only to tell them that you have a postpartum child and that they want you to keep in touch for future purposes.
β28 years after you were notified that your daughter is getting married and you were invited out of respect and even told to send a list of what tradition asks of a groom. Since you are not shy, you sent a long list.
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βThe groom sent you everything as tradition demands, there was no negotiation but the lady insisted on a Yoruba wedding since she was raised by a Yoruba stepfather. Now you said it is impossible for her to be your daughter and marry according to your traditions.
“At the little engagement party, you showed up and went to the high table to sit like the pickin gave me! The money they sent you to buy the event color you didn’t. You came to smell of alcohol.
“The bride came out and saw her dad soaked and came back in. That the marriage will not last if she does not return to the church. That’s how the drama began. People started begging the man, he refused, the mother was crying and the Yoruba dad called the police to take him out of the hall and keep him in the patrol car until the end of the wedding
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βThe marriage went on and after all they left him, the grandmother from Bayelsa was around.
“No one knew that she was the one who authorized the police arrest. When mom would counsel the couple at the reception, she told us, premarital sex should be frowned upon and if a man thinks he’s a father just by impregnating a woman, then he should he is locked up as my son was today.
βMama faced the grace and said, for every naira your mom received while raising you, I sent them, make sure you don’t make a mistake like me, take care of your mom in her old age and your other responsible father. Mom puts down the microphone and goes to the airport.
“Bayelsa women are strong women. They stood behind their granddaughter and made sure she was crowned successfully. Five of them flew to stop the men from disturbing the wedding. Once again, if you are a Bayelsa woman, I salute you all. “
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Reactions as the absent father shows up at the daughter’s wedding
The comments section was filled with his reactions Nigerians who were proud of the lady.
@incomparablegem.gh said:
βI’ve never been able to understand why children who were raised by one parent while the other parent WILLINGLY PUSHED them choose to reach out to the absent parent all of a sudden when it’s time for a big ceremony like their weddings! All this when you have PARENTS PRESENT?’
@ThatUrh said:
βWhen it comes to standing strong even against their children, the Bayelsa woman will do it. Let me hug my mom again for being that strong Bayelsa woman all my life.β
@Jojoneky1 said:
“You mean the absent father’s mom locked her son up?”
Ebitimi reacted:
“I am a Bayelsa woman, my blessed grandmother.”
@faith1166229525 reacted:
“A commendable deed.”
@Elliotcute said:
“I blame the baby and those who took care of her big time and not the alleged father who took zero responsibility.”
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Meanwhile, it was earlier reported that Mabel Oluwaninse Wealth, a Nigerian lady, popular on social media platforms after asking her father not to attend her wedding.
According to Mabel, her reason for deciding to ban her father from her big day was that the man abandoned her for 27 years.
Source: Legit.ng