It’s been a tradition for the fun loving Joseph Yobo and his wife, Adaeze to post Christmas family photos, writes Ferdinand Ekechukwu
Every year after their marriage, on the
eve of 2010, Nigeria’s ex-international football star, Joseph Yobo and
his beautiful wife Adaeze have made it a tradition to post family photos
during Christmas holiday. The Yobo’s as usual took to social media to
release their annual Christmas photos and card with delight to the
excitement of their fans and friends as they wished them a happy
Christmas and New Year celebration.The adorable couple will be nine
years in marriage a couple of days from now and are blessed with three
children; two boys – Joey and Jayden – and a girl – Laxine. The Everton
Legend’s wife is an ex-beauty queen – the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria
2008. The erstwhile captain of Super Eagles had arrived Nigeria during
the summer of 2009 to stay awhile when he met the Anambra beauty. He
would then spend the whole holiday back home after falling in love with
her.
According to Adaeze, “We met at an event
in Abuja and it might have been love at first sight, though I had not
noticed it. I did not know that it was something that would go far. I
never thought I’d be married when I did. I was not then into the
boyfriend thing. I was still discovering myself. But in the course of
our phone chats, it was as if we had known each other for a long time.
He left Nigeria and came back and overstayed this time and we were
together. About a month after that, he started talking about marriage.
He said he was serious and that he really loved me.
“I was already in love with him, so I
thought about it and realised I had nothing to lose. I told him if he
was serious, he needed to come see my mum. Two weeks after the
discussion, he came to see my mum. Joseph and I both immediately agreed
on having a baby. Because we thought if I got pregnant, everyone would
know that we were serious about getting married. He left for the UK and I
was always going to the hospital every other time to find out if I was
pregnant.
Eventually I called him to tell him the
good news, and on hearing the news, he told me he was getting me the
next flight to Liverpool.
“Then we started planning for the
wedding…but agreed to do a small wedding because there was no time to
plan a big one. We had the wedding and a little ceremony and Joe left
immediately the next day for the nation’s cup. Being a wife and mother
at my age (21) was a bit difficult at first, especially for my husband.
But fortunately he had so much patience and I have gotten loads of
advice on how to go about it all, and when I put them to practice, they
work. At the rate at which we are going and by God’s grace, it’s going
to be much better than how beautiful it is now.”
The union truly can be said to have seen
both celebrity couple grow in beauty and strength amidst differences as
there is, according to the saying, no perfect marriage. Once there was a
report about the bride’s mother (Abigail Igwe) meddling in Yobo and
Adaeze’s affair which was regarded as unhealthy as it caught the
attention of the press and public following her incessant visit to the
Turkish home of the lovebirds who had married barely three months after
they met.
Then there was the case of the alleged
Yobo’s mistress calling out his wife on Instagram shortly after Adaeze
posted a picture and the lady dropped a comment accusing Yobo of
frolicking with other women while his wife is unaware.
Another was Adaeze Yobo revealing that
she once had a fight with her husband and to spite him the more, decided
to get a tattoo knowing Yobo’s disgust for such art works. To her, she
got a tattoo of a Brazilian cartoon character alongside the name of
their first baby and when her husband saw it, it dragged their fight for
extra more days.