Nollywood actress and media personality Omotunde Adebowale-David, popularly known as Lolo 1, has said she would rather be in a polygamous marriage than tolerate a partner who keeps secret affairs.
Speaking during a recent podcast with fellow actress Bimbo Akintola, Lolo expressed that honesty and fairness should always form the foundation of relationships.
“I would rather a man be polygamous than for him to be married and have a side-chick. That’s the one I would not contend with,” she said.
The actress argued that while polygamy may not be ideal, it offers more transparency and a fairer structure compared to what she described as “side-chick culture.”
“At least in polygamy, the co-wives know where they stand. There’s fairness to an extent. But when a man hides behind one wife and keeps another relationship secretly, it becomes deceitful,” she added.
Her colleague, Bimbo Akintola, who was also part of the discussion, attributed the rise of infidelity to social conditioning that pressures men to marry women who fit the image of “wife material” rather than those they genuinely love.
“This ‘side-chick culture’ began when men were told to marry the so-called wife material instead of the women they truly loved,” Akintola said, stressing that honesty and transparency remain key ingredients in healthy relationships.
