Reality TV star Iheme Faith Uloma aka Ifu Ennada has chided critics calling her a gold-digger over her interview on two-time UFC Middleweight Champion, Israel Adesanya.
The former BBNaija star reacted to criticism that began emanating after her interview with a mainstream media outlet.
Name-calling started to fly after a blog reposted the news on its platform in a post titled, “I love Israel Adesanya, I’ll go on a date with him” Ifu Ennada.”
But Ifu Ennada urged critics to read the entire post first to better understand the context in which she used those words. While at it, she gloated about being independent of men, emphasising she didn’t need them to pay her bills.
Sharing the post, she wrote,
“People have been sending this (referring to a screenshot of a blog’s post about her declaring love for UFC world champ and suggesting a date with him) to me, and some people in the comment section are even insulting me and calling me Gold-digger.
“This was an interview I did with Punch…look for and read the interview to understand the context in which I said this.
“P.S: I’m by no means a Gold-digger. I have my own money and I don’t need a man to pay my bills.”
In a follow-up post via her insta stories, the actress expressed her distaste for people who waste no time in tagging young women gold-diggers and ‘oloshos’ (prostitutes) when a successful man was in the picture.
The AMAA award winner for ‘Best Young and Promising Actor’ in the movie O-Town, warned people whose stock in trade it was to label women as such to desist from the act, as she further reinforced her independence from men along with being an employer who pays bills of her various staff.
She added,
“I hate the fact that Nigerians are quick to call a young woman a Gold-digger when a man that’s deemed successful is involved.”
“I don’t have all the money in the world but I have businesses that not only pay my bills but employ and pay the bills of various staff working in different capacities.
“Pls let us stop this narrative of tagging young women as undercover oloshos… Some of us work real hard and do not need men to support us in any way.”