Popular Nigerian actor, Kanayo O Kanayo, has averred that women who are in their 30s without a husband are a ‘prayer point’ and ‘state of emergency’.
The veteran movie star shared his viewpoint and the reason for his statement during a recent appearance on the Soni Irabor Live show broadcast on News Central.
The actor explained that such women refused the advances of their male peers when they were as young as 18, 19, 20 in the university.
He began,
A young girl will be in the university at 18, 19, 20. She starts dating a very rich guy—sometimes very old. Then, what you see along the line is that because the guy is very rich (maybe married), she refuses advances of other younger people to her.
Kanayo O Kanayo went on to state that the women continue to enjoy relationships with the older men while in their early 20s until it starts to dawn on them when they begin to approach their late 20s that they are no longer as attractive and cannot flex their agency like they used to.
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He continued,
Because this guy has either gotten her a car and a house. So, to her, she’s reached a very high level. From 22, she goes on to 24. And maybe, even if she quarrels with this guy, she gets her next guy. Before you know it, she turns 25, 26 unmarried because she is refusing the advances of younger prospective husbands.
The actor then added that he has treated a story called ‘After 33’.
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In his words,
Now she gets into 29, 30. By that time, she has left the university. And men are no longer maybe finding her that attractive. So, she gets into 31, husband is not coming. And what do you have? At 23, it’s a flex.
At 28, she becomes a prayer point. At 33, she is now declared a state of emergency. And some of them even get into 35.
Adding that the women are believed to be having fun whereas they are not, he said,
And you see them and think they are having fun, they are not having fun. They are now a state of emergency praying that God bring anyone.
