Veteran music executive and CEO of Kennis Music, Kenny Ogungbe, has disclosed how his record label took different measures to ensure that iconic singer Innocent Idibia, also known as 2Face, was protected from the distractions of fame, particularly the attention of women.
Ogungbe, popularly known as Baba Keke, made this known during a recent episode of The Honest Bunch podcast, where he disclosed the effort the record label put in to keep the singer focused as women constantly sought his attention.
Ogungbe said, “When 2face was with us [at Kennis Music], we prevented him from seeing girls. Girls come to look for him all the time but we didn’t allow him see any of them but when he left our record label, there was nothing we could do about the situation anymore.”
Ogungbe added that he refused to intervene when comedians began joking about 2Face’s reputation as a womaniser. He noted that the veteran singer was a grown man responsible for his own decisions.
“Even when he was becoming the butt of the jokes of some comedian [for being a womaniser], I didn’t call him to question him because he’s a matured man. Every man has his cross,” he remarked.
2Face frequently made headlines for having children with multiple women at the height of his career. He eventually settled down and married Annie Idibia, one of his baby mamas, in 2012.