Veteran comedian, Ali Baba has shared the touching story of how he became a father to triplets at the age of 59.
In a heartfelt revelation, Ali Baba explained that the journey began with his wife’s desire to have a son, as she already had two daughters.
Initially, he was hesitant about expanding their family but eventually agreed, leading to a surprising outcome.
In the interview, he said;
ALI BABA: “Madam had always wanted to have a son. She had two daughters and we talked about it. So, I told her I didn’t want to be doing school runs and joining Wizkid and Rema in parents and teachers WhatsApp group. But one truth is the nest becomes empty when all the children have gone abroad, and so the discussion came up again.
By the way, she had said she wanted to adopt two or three children to take care of them. One day, she then said instead of adopting, let’s just have our own. I was like ‘ok but the way the economy is?’ and she replied ‘you said the economy is bad’, I said ‘yes’ and she said, ‘have you stopped paying house rent for people?’ I said ‘no.’ She asked again, ‘Have you stopped paying school fees?’ and I said ‘no.’ We have a foundation—the Purple Girl Foundation taking care of over 120 people in schools from primary to university. Beyond that foundation, we have people we are paying school fees for and people we are sending to law school.
So, she said all those people you are helping, did you remember the economy? She said if you think about it, the reason why God put you in this position might be more than taking care of yourself. So I said okay, let’s do one and she now said if we do one, you know that IVF fails so let’s do two. So, I said, let’s do two.
And then, one of the eggs split into two and that was how it became three. When it became three, she and the doctor knew that it had become three but they didn’t want to tell me. So they were like ‘sometimes when we ask God for one million, he gives you two million. When God wants to bless you, you don’t know how he wants to bless you, he will just do.’ So, I was like where is this going? She then said the eggs split into two and I said it was two we were looking for and she said, it’s now three. Me sef, I thought it was April Fools.”