I am not her only ex - Gbenro Ajibade to Osas Ighodaro

Ajibade’s response — “I am not her only ex” — reads almost like an attempt to reset the narrative boundary. A reminder that one person’s story does not automatically assign blame to another.

It’s a quiet push against the internet’s habit of turning memory into accusation.

Another subtle layer sits underneath this moment: the evolving relationship between private truth and public interpretation.

That is roughly where the conversation currently sits between Nollywood actors Gbenro Ajibade and Osas Ighodaro.

Recently, Ajibade responded to speculation circulating online after Ighodaro recounted a past relationship experience in an interview — a story about being escorted out of a building by security during a dispute with an ex-partner. As social media often does, it quickly began assigning identities to the unnamed figure in the story. Many assumed the person she was referring to must have been Ajibade, her former husband.

Ajibade pushed back publicly.

“Enough with the questions. I am not her only ex,” he wrote on social media, distancing himself from the narrative that many users had connected to him. 

The moment itself is small. Just a sentence on social media.

But the reaction around it says something larger about the way modern celebrity memory works.

In Nigeria, the marriage between Ajibade and Ighodaro once symbolised a kind of entertainment-industry fairy tale. Two stars from the TV series Tinsel, a glamorous wedding in 2015, a daughter born in 2016. For a time, they represented the aspirational image of Nollywood success and romance. 

Then came the familiar arc: public tension, online accusations, and eventually divorce in 2019. 

But what’s interesting now is not the breakup itself. It’s how the public continues to revisit it years later.

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