My ex-husband wants me back- ‘queen of talking drum’ Ara says

Prolific singer and African leading female talking drummer, Ara says her ex-husband Prince Nurudeen Olalekan Saliu has been begging her for a comeback. Ara and Nurudeen got married in June 2004 but ended the marriage in 2011. The singer in an interview with Tribune says although her ex husband has remarried, he still wants her as his wife. Excerpts below…

Tribune: Are you still talking to your ex, are you still friends?

Ara: My ex actually wants me back. He has been begging and calling saying all kind of things and I have told him it can’t work.

Tribune: Is it that  you’re still hurting?

Ara: No, it’s just that I don’t want to go back to that kind of a relationship anymore. There were things involved I wouldn’t want to talk about.

Tribune: Was it abuse, domestic violence…?

 Ara: I don’t want to talk about it. What I will say is just that for now, we relate well and life goes on. I have a son for him and besides he’s married now.

Tribune: You mean he is married and still wants you back?

Ara: He is a Muslim and he is entitled to four as long as he can love them equally.

She also talked about her new love she met over a year ago at Shoprite…

“It took a lot of courage. I did not date anyone for over a year. Meeting my love was divine. I met at Shoprite after many years. He is someone from my past, my late cousin’s friend who was very close to me back then. I knew he had a crush on me but for some reasons I avoided him. That was 23 years ago when I was daddy’s girl and my late cousin was a terror so I assumed all his friends were like him and I avoided him. He came to me when my career kicked off but then I was so much into Ara. And then we met again and he’s been the most wonderful man I have ever met. I am glad to have him.”