Nollywood actor Samuel Ajibola, popularly known as “Spiff,” has addressed the ongoing discussions surrounding the striking resemblance between his son and former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Spiff, whose family faced criticism after posting images of a visit to Obasanjo in 2022, revealed that his son's resemblance to the former president led to cyberbullying and false claims that Obasanjo was the boy's "true father."
In a recent interview with Channels TV, the actor clarified the situation, explaining that the perceived likeness in the picture was due to his son just waking up from sleep, sporting eye bags. He stated: “The picture that caused the stir was the picture with me and my wife with the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.
“I’m the Youth Ambassador to the Youth Development Centre of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library. So I have a relationship with him. He is a huge mentor to my life.
“And so from time to time, I visit him. After I had my son, I took him there to see him. And people started assuming things. They said, ‘Okay, my wife was a secretary to the former President.’ It moved from that to, ‘Oh! He [Obasanjo] is the true father’ of my son.
I won’t deny it, I’m saying this live on air. In that picture, my son does look like him there. But there are circumstances around it. And it’s still a picture. It’s a still picture. It’s a second. It’s a moment of which my son was just waking up from sleep when we arrived. So he was just booting and he had those eyebags. Those eyebags made him look like the former President. And people were claiming as if they were 100 per cent sure that the former President was the true father of my son.”