By Olaitan Ibrahim
Nigerian singer Teniola Apata, fondly called Teni, has opened up about her recent struggle with illness.
In a video shared on Instagram on Wednesday, the ‘Money’ crooner detailed how she was down with malaria for two weeks but still had to show up for a music performance.
She said in the video, “When I sang ‘Uyo Meyo’ and said, ‘Ohun toju mi ti ri ah’ (What my eyes have seen) but my eyes had not seen anything. Malaria!
“Ah, e no go better for all the mosquitoes wey dey for Ikate. I dey tell you. Oba, you need to find something to do about the mosquitoes in Ikate because malaria had me down.”
Teni recalled how she lost appetite and humorously said she almost wanted her mum to wake her late dad at the burial site to come to her aid.
She added, “I almost called my mum that they should turn off the AC in the burial ground of my father because it’s like he wanted to take a nap. I said, ‘Wake up, your daughter is dying!’ I was down. I was weak for two weeks. I couldn’t eat.
“If you people should see my neck now, I look like tolotolo. I look like a turkey.”
She noted that despite her illness, she travelled to Ondo State to perform because she couldn’t refund the money she was paid.
“And I went to go and perform in Ondo as I was sick oh, because who will feed me?,” She said.
Describing her performance she said, “Look at me. I was dying, oh! Look at me just dancing, singing ‘For Your Case’ because I cannot return money.
“Any money that enters into my account, whichever money enters inside the sugar mummy account, it does not come back outside. And they say money is the root of all evil. E no go better for evil!.”
The caption of her post read, “Money cannot buy you health o, na God.”