Charly Boy and wife, Lady Diane
The news is no longer that maverick media personality, entertainer cum social commentator, Charley Boy on Saturday evening at the Chapel of Sisters of Jesus the Redeemer Catholic Church in Gwarimpa, Abuja exchanged marital vows with his wife after 40 years. The intrigue behind the ritual and the huddle he had to over patch is the real deal.
Charley Boy alias Area Fada (real name, Charles Chukwuemeka Oputa) had to be grilled by what he described as Catholic Tribunal before getting the nod to be wedded to Lady Diane as husband and wife in the proper tradition of the Church.
www.beats-onit.com can authoritatively report that the church had declined joining Charley Boy and Lady Diane in marriage for the reason that he had wedded a lady in the same church before, which is prohibited by the doctrinal provisions of Catholicism.
Charley Boy who confided in www.beats-onit.com, that based on the fact that in 1974 as a teenager he had contracted a wedding in Caholic to a lady, the Church had refused to wed him and Lady Diane, revealed that prominent members of the clergy interceded for him and his wife.
According to the acclaimed punk king, the Arch Bishop of Abuja Catholic Arch diocese, John Cardinal Onaiyekan and the Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Bishop Mathew Hassan Kuka stepped in to make case for him to save the day.
Said he: ”Why do you think that such highly placed clerics were present at the wedding? They made case for me up to Rome before a go-ahead was given for my low-keyed wedding.
“Not up to 30 persons were in attendance but it was worth my while as the entire aim which was to do the needful was fulfilled.
“You saw the Keke; when Dian saw it she was like what’s this Keke angle, refusing to board. But she boarded it anyway”.
According to Charley Boy, it was his way of doing things and unless one can read in between the lines one will not understand.
With the way paved, Saturday, December 15, 2018 the Nigerian showbiz maestro and activist, formally walked his American wife, down the aisle.
The low-keyed wedding which was officiated by Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Dioceses, Bishop Mathew Kukah. Among some other clergymen, the Archbishop of Abuja Catholic Diocese, Cardinal John Onaiyekan was present.
Also had in attendance close friends and relatives of the couple, including the mother, Mrs. Margaret Oputa.
They thereafter signed the marriage register as the couple exchanged the “I do” vows amidst cheers from the congregation.
Onaiyekan, in his exhortation, hailed the couple for staying together for over four decades.
He, however, urged them to be committed to their marriage vows by showing mutual love, understanding and respect for each other.
”I specially congratulate Charles and his wife for this Godly decision, and I pray God to keep them together.”
Charly Boy said on the sidelines that he and his wife decided to wed in church to honour his aged mother who had been ‘pleading that we do the right thing’.
He further said that he got married as a teenager in 1974, and secured divorce after the union produced one child.
He noted that the Catholic Church observed a strict marital doctrine.
”This is not that kind of marriage with fanfare; I am doing it to please my aged mother and meet certain demands of the society.
”She has been pleading that we do the right thing, saying this is the woman I have been living with for 40 years.
”We have been following through with the process of annulment of my last marriage, and my former wife who has since remarried cooperated very well, and then in 2017, the marriage was formally annulled.
”My mother actually got the wife for me at the age of 19 because I was a little rascally with women as a young man; she thinks it would curb my sexual excesses,” he said.
Charlyboy, who is 67 years, has nine children from different women, and has 16 grandchildren.
He has, however, always regarded Diane as the mother of all his children.
