“I pay my son’s school fees. When Michelle was with me, I was the one paying her school fees. She told me that she has been upgraded so she removed our son from the school we both enrolled him and I pay N380,000. She went to enroll the kid in a school that pays N980,000. I told her I could not afford it because I am not a drug trafficker neither am I an armed robber...''
Lanre Gentry, the ex husband of popular Nollywood actress, Mercy Aigbe, has explained what transpired between him and Mercy that led to a public altercation on Sunday June 20,2021 which happened to be Fathers day..
In an interview with The Punch, Gentry noted that he has no problem with the actress and gave an insight into what caused their war of words on social media.
“I do not have any problem with Mercy and I am not fighting with her. She is the one that is fighting; I deserve to wish myself a happy Father’s Day whenever it is celebrated. Woli Agba made a funny skit which I liked; I reposted it on my page and wished myself a Happy Father’s Day. The next thing was that she insinuated that the message I posted was directed at her. I told her the post was not direct to her. That was it. I do not have a problem with her neither am I fighting with her. I am a man so I do not believe in gossiping or backbiting; it is mostly women that do that. I do not need to join issues with Mercy.”
Gentry told The Punch that apart from having a child with the actress, he has no relationship with Mercy Aigbe. He was quick to note that contrary to the fact that the actress wants to portray him as a ‘deadbeat father’, he provides for their son.
The estranged husband of the actress further revealed that he will soon tie the knot with another woman.
He said, “I do not have a relationship with Mercy and by the grace of God I will re-marry in September this year. I have my fiancée that I am going to marry. So you see that I do not have any issues with her. When it comes to Mercy and me, we are already divorced. She dragged me to five different courts for a divorce and she has got it. I do not have anything to do with her again.
“I pay my son’s school fees. When Michelle was with me, I was the one paying her school fees. She told me that she has been upgraded so she removed our son from the school we both enrolled him and I pay N380,000. She went to enroll the kid in a school that pays N980,000. I told her I could not afford it because I am not a drug trafficker neither am I an armed robber.
I pay the amount that I can afford. When she brought her daughter to my house, I was the one taking care of the child as a father so when she takes Juwon to another man’s house, the man should take up the responsibility of a father. Later in life, the boy will know his real father’s house.”
Who wrote this for him?
ReplyDeleteE concern u?
DeleteHe writes and you laugh, he gets someone to do it, you still come up with questions.
It's an interview so the interviewer summarised it to us
DeleteThe Punch newspaper. Happy now?
DeleteMercy enter one chance with this baby daddy o. He refuses to be silenced. Which in a way is commendable. Mercy wants to live a Banana Island lifestyle on a mainland Budget. That's not Gentry's problem quite frankly.
DeleteSir you no kill person ooo, you have to pay what you can afford, neither are you a yahoo man, or ungun known men, nor kidnapper, nor herds..
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Oga don't be ridiculous! So you expect her new husband to pay your son's school fees just cause you paid her daughter's own. Stop looking for an excuse to be a deadbeat dad. Since it's 380k you can afford , give it to Mercy let her balance it up ,since she has upgraded and left you behind.
ReplyDeleteRead properly. He said he pays the amount he can afford. How is he now a deadbeat???
DeleteIf this story is anything to go by, this man does not even want trouble.
Mr Gentry should keep paying the amount he can afford.
Please apply wisdom. All he's saying is he can't do more than himself. Please respect the man.
DeletePlease be realistic. Since she has been upgraded, let her upgraders pay the remaining. Oga, pay what you can afford.
DeleteU don't have sense.Always read to digest.The man is ready to pay what he can afford.Mercy is the trouble maker here.Let her cut her coat according to her size.Fake woman
DeleteBorrow yourself sense o. How is he ridiculous.
DeleteAnon, you are the senseless one here. Didn't you see where he stated that if she remarries , the man should take up his son's responsibilities just as he did for Michelle . Any man that is ready to hand over his responsibilities to another man is a dead beat dad.
DeleteAmin 10:40. You no reason well, make the guy do pass in power?
DeleteAbeg
That anonymous is Mercy. Stop arguing with her.
Deletewhich mercy? u people will read and cannot comprehend....why did he say he looked after her daughter so if she takes his son to another mans house, the man should look after him...
DeleteThis makes sense. If u want me to foot the bills, put my child in a school I can afford. Period!!!! I will not Rob a bank to pay for school fees na.
ReplyDeleteI hope he sha continued dropping the 380k so she can balance up herself since she was the one that chose the school.
BTW, is a decision concerning where ur child goes to school not supposed to be something to decide together?
Exactly. He can keep paying the 380k. If God blesses him more later, he can add to the said amount. He cant be forced to pay the amount he cannot afford.
DeleteThank you Eka. Let her upgraders pay the bills.
DeleteYou didn't read the part of him absconding from parental duties he owes his son if Mercy remarries simply because he paid his step daughter's fees.
DeleteMr Lanre i understand you and it will be better if you still send the amount you can afford and let her argument the remaining amount for her upgrading. I respect you for not being a push over man, congratulations in your up coming wedding and happy married life
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DeleteLet him keep paying what he can afford and keep receipts, the records will speak for him one day. He didn't abandon his child, he just can't afford the level that Mercy wants.
ReplyDeleteAbi oh. C'est finis
DeleteI don't understand the last paragraph, apart from taking the son to the school you can't afford, why not pay what you can afford and let her complete it. And the last paragraph, so if she decided to remarry, the man should train your son for you, cos she has remarried? This man is still pained
ReplyDeleteWhat he saying is Mercy came to him with a child whom he helped cater for and he didn't drag the girl's dad. Since she is with another man, let his actions be paid forward. Lol. Not right but not senseless either.
DeleteMercy Cannot eat her cake and have it. It's like paying humongous child support while the child mother is with another man....basically you'll be paying for the entire family
Deletesome of you support rubbish...so because he paid for another mans child his own should be catered for by the new man? it makes no sense abeg...as na mercy now she is automatically the guilty one....the guy has no excuse...look after your child period. pay what you can afford and let her balance the rest
DeleteWahala no dey finish for them celebrities
ReplyDeleteCongratulations in advance Gentry.
Making sense till "when she takes juwon to another man's house, he should take the responsibilities."
ReplyDeleteI hope he has a relationship with the son.
If mercy took the boy out of a school the father can afford,then he brings the funds he has and she adds to it.
Thank you dear. I loved the interview until that last paragraph
Deletethere is something humiliating about a woman not allowing a kid to stay where the husband can pay so he will have some dignity ..Some women will just yank the child out of the school and send new invoice to the father without sitting with him respectfully and discussing about the new school and when he protest about not being consulted you rain curses at him and say things like your mates are paying millions ..im not saying she did so but it is common with upgraders
DeleteAll of you followers of these "celebs" are the ones I pity most.
ReplyDeleteThey live in fantasy islands.
They live their nightmares and call them dreams.
What is waiting for them in old age is regrets.
And in eternity?
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Old age regrets, hmmmm
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DeleteAbeg, where una dey see all these money?
ReplyDeleteI just pity her daughter that bears Gentry as her surname. She should have been bearing her real father's surname or Aigbe. Too bad.
ReplyDeleteMercy is the problem, she has always been the problem.
ReplyDeleteWhich man can tolerate such a woman.
A wife beater and cheat isn't the problem? A guy on marriage number 2 married a woman on no.2 as well but only one was beating the other. Lanre abeg get lost. Why are you monitoring her "inhuman acts" when you are marrying you own"inhuman acts" partner in a few months? Everyone has their life to live abeg.
Deleteshe is an actress so she has to be the problem abi?...rubbish, you dont know all the facts of the matter...they both have been married twice and the guy is abusive so who is better?
DeleteShe upgraded, keep sending the 380k you can afford while she balances up.
ReplyDeleteDon't be blanked out completely out of your son's life simply bcos she has got another man.
The child is yours and doesn't automatically belong to any man the mother marries except he adopts him.
The last one get as e be. So since your ex is with another man, the man should foot your son's bill cos you did same for her daughter???
ReplyDeleteHmmmmmmm
Oga continue with 380k, at least that is what you can afford
Pay what you can afford and send him gifts and also visit him from time to time.
ReplyDeletePlease keep sending 380k and take up any other responsibilities to enable you have a strong defence in the future.
ReplyDeleteOk sir
ReplyDeleteThat last statement is just ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteWhat a skewed thought process.
Send what you have, if she chooses to send him to a school where school fees is 10 million, her headache. Apart from school fees and providing for your son, you should be spending time with your boy, once in a weekend every month or 2 is fine. Have a relationship with him!
And if she doesn't let him spend time with the boy? You people will just be throwing advice upandan.
DeleteThen he should take her to court!!!
DeleteIt is difficult building a relationship that never existed when a child is much older.
What is wrong if the wife pays the school fees? Doesn't she work or have two hands? Men have been doing it for ages without complaints or are women no longer equal to men? Any little thing women make, they must complain
ReplyDeleteSo she should be the one taking care of the child and also paying all bills for the child. What is the point of him as a parent then. The child is BOTH their responsibility, not just hers
DeleteCan’t believe everyone wants him to continue sending 380k to Mercy, for what? Did she discuss changing the child school to another with almost 200% increment? Oga Lanre, now their conscience they judge them, they no fit abuse you say you no fit write good English, wish you all the best in your next marriage
ReplyDeleteso you know the facts that she did not discuss it abi? we wish mercy all the best in her next marriage too...after all it will be number 3 each for both of them
DeleteSince you didn't abandon your son, keep supporting with what you can afford.
ReplyDeleteWhat if she rejected the 380k that the man can afford. May God sort their differences
ReplyDeleteWhich is something she can definitely do because someone like that wants to take all the glory. That's the only way her story can be sweet
DeleteI think that's exactly what she did. She decided to up the responsibility alone, then comes on SM to call him deadbeat and claim father.
Deleteyou think that is what she did as the witness that was there na....I hate when some of you come and assume you know all about a situation because you do not like who is involved.. what makes you think lanre has not also come out to say his own side to be sweet? we just sit and judge celebrities as if we are all holier than them.
DeleteEeya,me I feel sorry for the man.He can't do pass himself cos mercy upgraded.He should continue to pay the amount he can afford and he should be in his son's life. Just like the other one flew to turkey to give her son a birthday hug,if his father can't afford such, doesn't mean he's a deadbeat dad. All these celebrities with doing every every to outshine each other.
ReplyDeleteThe current set of young girls will have very unhappy relationships.
DeleteWhen society has a proliferation of women like this, its women usually have a tiny pool of valuable men to choose from
Can't Mercy pay the school fees, shebi she has upgraded....the joke is on her and many other women out there with such skewed sense of entitlement....she has money from upgraders but don't want to spend it
ReplyDeleteSo because she has upgraded , the man should now run away from his responsibilities. Mercy is already doing alot for the child sef if it's only school fees he pays. What about shelter, clothing and feeding? Abeg she is trying.
DeleteShes spending. She just wants to humiliate the man. It's common practice with many exwives.
DeleteMakes you wonder why the relationship failed in the first place
so when she takes Juwon to another man’s house, the man should take up the responsibility of a father. Later in life, the boy will know his real father’s house.”
ReplyDeleteThe above got my attention lol
What a statement. I hope wife number 3 is reading this. Plus infidelity plus beating, he is also ready to walk away from his own child to spite an ex. Wow.
DeleteThis woman doesn't know Juwon is seeing all this and though he may not understand now he will in future and will come to hate women if a woman even does a tenth of this.
ReplyDeleteI read the other thread yesterday and most BVs were more concerned about the man's grammatical blunders as if they mean anything in the larger scheme of things. Lol
A woman is openly practicing prostitution and all we can say about the pained ex husband is that his English is wack?
Will the Juwon not grow up? Will he not date/marry? What kind of man will he grow up to be? A woman wrapper or woman hater that's what.
He has no proper frames of reference on what a healthy relationship looks like. He will also have ugly relationships unless he's lucky or deliberately decides to learn what a healthy relationship is.
Entering a relationship with the mindset of winning everytime there's a difference already dooms it.
The amount of school fees paid does not not determine the quality of education, mbok. For the man to even pay N5.00 shows he is responsible. If you "upgrade", collect what he can afford and add yours to it without noise. After all, you saw Dangote, Otedola, Fashola, Ambode, Obaseki etc before you settled for him, so why downgrade him? It takes a mature woman to raise kids aware from public accolades and many women are doing this and more without any social media noise. All these immature adults seeking validation on social media is so so appalling.
ReplyDeleteThe award for shameless man goes to Mr gentry. let another man pay your SON'S school fees. very shameful.
ReplyDeleteThank you. Such a disgusting statement. You can see that the man is more concerned about monitoring Mercy's flings instead of focusing on his son.
DeleteMr Gentry, post your 380k to your son's present school as part of his fees and if you are still blocked from contributing, you can open an investment account and deposit somewhere around 500k for him per month- somewhere close to what you'll have been spending on him if he were with you anyway and send the statement to Mercy. Keep tabs to know what school mercy is enrolling him in and have written receipts on your recommendation based on your pocket. Get your lawyer involved and be ready to declare your earnings. Don't let your son meet this your roforofo fight and this careless statement online without seeing evidence that you want to be a part of his life.
Take his birth certificate, pictures and other documents to his school and go to see him there even if it is picking him up to drop at his mother's house after school or sports on weekends. Get the court to mediate visitation. Make that effort because kids don't want to know who was fighting but who was there. May you not lose your son the same way you lost your daughter.
why do men feel once they remarry they can throw away their children. so y do you think you should wish yourself fathers day. being a father is beyond school fees and money. men learn that's y children keep getting closer to their mothers
ReplyDeleteI said this yesterday...
ReplyDeleteStop comparing your baby daddy with your SPONSORS!!
Abi should he steal the 980k?since its her own level that has passed the one the boys father can afford,she will be the one to cater for the fees,its just reality because in honesty, the man does not look like he could drop a million per term!!
That last paragraph of the man's statement is a proverb.
ReplyDeleteAny man wooing or marrying or befriending a single mother must be ready to bear some financial responsibilities of her children living with her. Women you all know this. So there is no need to be dramatic over that statement.
Single women with children always tell their suitors to be ready to love them with their children. Right? Can a man love a woman's children without being responsible one way or the other for them? The man did it before. So he speaks from experience.
Mr Gentry is paying school fees. Mr. Upgrader paid or is paying for the house and food. The boy is living in the House with his mother. Should Mr. Gentry pay house rent for the boy?
Lest we forget Mercy complained only about school fees.
Anyway, na proverb the man talk. Those who know but are feigning ignorance should continue. Those who do not know but want to continue to abuse the man directly and men generally by proxy because of their own sad experiences with other men, should continue.