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DADDY Freeze has gone through a whole lot, and all before even clocking 40! For the record, Moses, Prophet Mohammed and Jesus acknowledged divorce; Jesus only let us know that “from the beginning it was not so”.

However, for a man with a calling into a ministry, there is a need for you Daddy Freeze to keep on the right side of the law (NOT on the right side of society). Doing otherwise, will only give bite to naysayers (the Pharisees and Sad-To-Sees).

Now that you have found happiness and love, I am truly happy that you are now happy. But I feel I should let you know that I wish you would live apart temporarily, pending when the lady obtains LEGAL SEPARATION from her husband.

Note that it is only the mother of your children you are separated from. Do everything you can to be involved in the lives of your estranged children including seeking legal means to have access to them. Financially too, be fully involved, if at all you are not.

The former CNN news anchor and presenter Isha Sesay started dating Leif Coorlin, Executive Editor of CNN Freedom Project in 2008 (she joined CNN in 2005). In 2013, they got married in a grand ceremony.

In 2018, Isha Sesay announced in an online magazine that they were divorced. She also announced on social media that she had quit her job at CNN (a book she’s writing on the Chibok Girls is due to be presented this May 2019).

So what am I trying to say here? A beautiful media personality, just like you got married and divorced. But it was without all the drama being thrown out there, by either of the two.

I vividly remember when we were both at Cool Fm; we had an African American Presenter whose love life was a daily drama. He was also a kiss-and-tell person, no keeping ‘nothing’ to himself!

It was you Daddy Freeze who always used to tell us –

‘Americans no get Family Secret’. ‘These folks have no shame! – Remember?!!

Daddy Freeze has been in the news for different reasons over the last couple of years. From his failed marriage to his consistent calling out of pastors in recent times – he has become a regular face on the front pages of blogs and tabloids. Odion Okonofua, Pulseng

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The above came this past Monday, the quote before it was the Monday before.

Daddy Freeze seems to have a calling. It is for this reason that extreme caution and deep introspection are requirements on the part of Daddy Freeze, so as to speak from a vantage point of power, of wisdom, right and might.

For instance, no one can fault Freeze on his demand that the pastor who flogged his members (for whatever

reason) be arrested for assault.

It is consoling to see that someone can come out publicly to speak out on something that a lot of people condemn privately – that is the flashy and high handed lifestyle of our clergymen.

Presiding over an impoverished congregation who are part of the Nigerians making up the world’s poverty capital, it is astonishing to discover that a number of Nigerian pastors make up the top 5 richest pastors in the world.

I read a headline of one interview in The Nation granted by one of these pastors: “I will have a private jet” I was astounded – the man unabashedly declared his “mission” in “ministry”. Not to teach people about God’s love for mankind, not to save perishing souls, not to even impact his society – just to get a jet. His photos showed his collection of exotic cars precursors to the jet. You see, ministry these days is about having a mega church, a garage littered with choice automobiles, the least valued at N10m; most importantly, the private jet. With this as the standard, pastors continue to aspire; as their congregations continue to grow larger, but poorer. And why?

Religion, they say, is the opium of the people.

Then comes Daddy Freeze, and he is saying ‘sit up’. Let us thank goodness, and SOMEBODY is saying stop that: sit up. Now, no one is saying pastors should not like good things. All the good things of the world are for people, for all mortals.

Daddy Freeze is quick to tell that he loves watches. Like Freeze I too, love watches (I have a sister who finds it incredible that I go to London and I come back with nothing but a watch, and some underwear!! She would come back with lots of suitcases of stuff – I would return with at most, a new hand bag).

Cars, planes, houses, watches, designer clothes: all these things ARE GOOD. But when a leader is practicing “them bellyful, we belly empty”, then we have got to protest, and ask for change.

Daddy Freeze does seem to be that oracle calling for change. In which case much more needs to be done in order for him not to appear as those living in glass houses; throwing stones.

So to Daddy Freeze I address the rest: It is extremely possible that you can be SINCERE, and you CAN be SINCERELY WRONG.

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The story of the conversion of Saul to Paul readily comes to mind. God saw his sincerity of purpose; also saw his misguided purpose and arrested him.

God sent him to the home of some the early faithful to learn, over a period of years.

This is where Daddy Freeze needs to engage. It will involve praying and fasting separation, consecration; including isolation. Every Muslim scholar even, knows how Jesus used to rise early to pray. It will also involve learning from a fore-runner. That way, one would never again make declarations and assertions IN ERROR. By reason of your standing, when you err, you cause other sheepies, this time YOUR FOLLOWERS, to also err.

Tithing is the expression of love that God wants us to show. God likens His relationship with the church (His people; NOT the buildings!) to that between a husband and his wife. They have love languages – they have certain ways in which they want to be loved!

Whoever says he loves God, keeps His commandments. Tithes are commanded so to speak – only for our good because they come with “commanded” blessings. It is these benefits or blessings that made the biblical Hypocrites and teachers and preachers to emphasize on the practice – just like the Nigerian “men of God” today. The emphasis was, is not on the more important aspects of justice, mercy and faith.

Daddy Freeze, would you take a second look as to whether you have put ALL OF YOUR OWN EMPHASIS on justice, mercy and faith? These are weightier yes, but have you neglected tithing

and the other seemingly “little” acts of love and obedience?

The mere application of the universally accepted biblical truth: Do unto others as you want done unto you; or, Love your neighbor as yourself, this would make any man pay his tithes, offerings and give help to the poor cheerfully.

Note that no pastor has at yet suspended, embarrassed or troubled any member anywhere to pay tithes. It does not even affect one’s ordinations and rise in church.

Tithing is very personal – would anyone other than one and God even KNOW one’s income; in order to DEMAND the tithe?

Who then monitors” the monitor? Religious leaders now revel in excesses. Daddy Freeze has stepped forward. However, he must be a balanced Daddy Freeze, since we know that all our good works will be rewarded here on earth.

My humble solution to it all, for us all is – just like in marriage, do your due diligence BEFORE saying I DO to the other person. That done, give him or her love THE WAY THEY want to be loved, and they should do the same to you.

Same goes for your spiritual growth. Locate a church/mosque/temple operating with scriptural principles; and not one started by some jobless greedy Nigerian. Then continue to grow in God, and grow in faith. I will keep Daddy Freeze in prayers, even as I remind us all that we are here on earth only for a specific time; our main aim is to leave here and go on to God, to heaven, by our salvation.

May God bless us all.

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COOL FM 96.9 Radio was the first fully digitalized radio station in the country, attracting American staff recruited directly from the US who came into Nigeria on contract to work at the new station. I was happy and proud to be a recruit from Metro FM Lagos – after heavyweights like Ibrahim Abubakar (“The Loveman”) had successfully been poached from Rhythm FM; which was the King of the airwaves then.

In no short time it became my turn, as head of a department to recruit new intakes too. I am glad to say I auditioned Mr Ifedayo Freeze Olarinde, Daddy Freeze.

Now Freeze was, is a born natural, and he was practically made to be an OAP. In fact his auditioning was a mere industry formality, and in our informal but business-like office setting, it took just a thumbs–up to the then DMD, Chris Ubosi to have Daddy Freeze employed.

Freeze (he even came with the name) is a most personable guy, a wonderful, warm fella. He is a totally great guy. He’s smart too. A few newcomers gave some headache (rewinding stuff on air and other crazy blunders) but Daddy Freeze had some experience in a smaller station in Ibadan before he came on board. More importantly, he’s a model worker, not a slacker, he wasn’t a late – comer; very approachable and likeable, and just a brilliant guy.

I think he started in 2001, about a year after me. He was a fresh graduate and so his was a conversion to youth service/full service. Then the following year, we were invited by him to Ibadan for… his wedding. He revealed that he and his lady had been childhood/college sweethearts and had decided to tie the knot.

It was a nice small wedding with his Romanian mother and Yoruba father, and his lady Ope Oni’s family present as well as other friends and colleagues.

Daddy Freeze and the very pretty Ope were clearly in love. However, they were really young, the bride was 19, I’d say 20 and Freeze was about 21. I would give a margin of plus 2 years tops, for the two of them.

As a wife of my friend, I became casual friend with the lady; I called her on the phone averagely once a year. I remember once Freeze also let me listen in to their private conversation, unknown to her, the phone was on speaker and I listened to the end. The one loved the other, and I found them an admirable pair. They were also committed to their church.

Now then:  like you can see from my writing, I am totally opinionated – but it is always an informed opinion. Also, I submit to a superior argument, based on fact and logic, I cannot stomach hypocrisy.

Lagos knew all this because I ALWAYS gave my opinion after giving the news, like a non-scripted news commentary. I dare to say that Lagos used to wake not just to my news – but to the news behind the news, plus my opinion. Immediately after that, ANOTHER ‘straight-up’ lady – TV show host Funmi Iyanda would come on TV for her weekday breakfast show, and from the outset, she would say: “Imikan said;, like Imikan said this morning etc.

From there, talking points kicked in.

So, with all humility and knowing that there were no ‘social media influencers’, I can say most definitely that I influenced Daddy Freeze. Same for Olumide Macauley, the Channels TV anchor who was then at Rythms 93.7Fm (because I was involved). And there were lots of other people I related to.

I later started a sport NGO, and at its first outing, we had Supersports in Nigeria for the first time (they had NOT then started, in Nigeria).

So Daddy Freeze was my person, he would spend long hours in the station on the computer, and just go on gisting. He is very good company.

Daddy Freeze was to later straighten ME out on the business side of life, teaching me how to make my skills marketable, and not keep “paying my dues” all my lifetime! He was then hosting the Coca-cola Millionaire Show on TV .

After I left Cool Fm, I saw snippets of  Daddy Freeze and the FreeNation Movement, and the Free the Sheeple Movement, and I was happy for him.

I was unsettled when I saw his post about his ‘partner’ – meaning the rumours of his marriage break-up were true. Greater was my shock when he posted his pictures after being “battered”, as in domestic abuse while still married. Counter accusations kept flying (my ex-wife traveled out of the country with my kids without my knowledge). I couldn’t help but wonder – what role did their church play in preventing all this.

Also, what was the role the couple themselves played? I’ve noticed that a lot of times when couples see that there is ‘fire on the mountain’, they seem to choose to keep feigning that all is well, rather than reaching out early for Godly counsel. Their first thoughts are to “please” society and ‘keep’ the marriage; but they do nothing new whatsoever, towards the “keeping”.

I am not ‘active’ on social media and so I missed a whole lot – but a certain man came out very publicly to announce that his wife was living illegally with Freeze, even while legally married to him! I was totally shaken, and reading further, I saw that the man said his wife had left their base in Port Harcourt and had relocated with their 4 children to Lagos. She had sued him for divorce and was living with Daddy Freeze!

I am sad with myself I adjudged this as personal, and kept completely quiet. But now that my news app bombards me with Freeze reacts to …. Freeze reacts to…. every single time, I feel I have to speak to him, IN LOVE, and as a friend.

From all responses I have seen, Daddy Freeze brooks no contrary opinion. But as one who knows him, I can also speak what’s true to him. I suppose I could get his personal contacts for a one – on – one. But then that will rob a lot of people of knowledge, people who react based ONLY on what they read, who do not have the benefit of the true picture of Daddy Freeze I have painted. Many more people could benefit from this.

Daddy Freeze. Firstly, I had to do a bit of a search for this piece and I was pained to read how in doing a certain                ’10 year challenge’ you said “I was in a horrible marriage… I was going through depression… and my colleagues at work hated my guts. Fast forward 10 years later and my existence has definition and purpose… I have the most wonderful woman on earth beside me”.

From my understanding, your purpose centers on marriage, and on ministries and religion. I will address the second aspect in another piece, for now I want us to look at the marital aspect.

Daddy Freeze, apart from the big guy in radio you befriended as a stepping stone to your entry, I can say we your colleagues loved you! You want to forget that guy, the oldest bachelor in entertainment; he never cared whether you or anyone else did well or not. You have towered way above others, you have become a household name.

In life, some people will definitely be jealous of another person’s rise, but largely I can say we all love you to bits.

I’m saddened that yours was a horrible marriage. Right here I must tell you though, I am disappointed at the behaviour of the both of you; fighting physically in the presence of your innocent, beautiful children! Haba.

Sorry, but this falls on you most especially, because if you “slap back”, you are stronger and will do the weaker great harm, and grievous bodily injury.

The greater onus is on you to control your temper.

It is a pity that our legal system can find a ‘marked’ man guilty and dispense with his case in record time, as far as he is hated by the government.

But for a land issue, family issue or divorce case, that will drag on endlessly often to the detriment of 2 young people who only want to find happiness and move on with their lives! To be Continued.

 

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