TVC head of programmes Morayo Afolabi-Brown has apologised to her husband Femi Afolabi-Brown over a statement she made on live TV on Wednesday.
Speaking during the popular Your View breakfast show, Mrs Afolabi-Brown said although she trusted her husband, she would not let him bathe her daughter.
“I absolutely trust my husband but I won’t take chances and have him bathe my daughter, because whether we like it or not, there is something flying in the air these days that is encouraging imbalance and immoralities,” she said.
In spite of negative reactions that immediately trailed her statement, the TV presenter insisted that she was not wrong to have made the comments.
In a video posted on Instagram on Thursday, she said her husband was not a paedophile, but “a responsible decent man” who “can never do anything to hurt any of his children.”
She, however, doubled down by saying she was speaking for women who keep quiet despite knowing their husbands are sexually abusing their daughters.
“So understand this, there are women who have used their life to vouch that their husbands would never abuse their daughters yet we see it happen. Let’s make it easy for those women to speak up. Let’s make it easy for girls to speak up about their abusers, even if it’s their father!” she added in the caption to the video.
That proved to be ill-advised, and the crescendo in attacks directed at her forced her to apologise publicly to her husband.
“The last 24 hours have been tougher than I expected, my sincere apologies to my husband, I love, trust and respect you! It was an error and I’m really sorry,” she with tears in her eyes on Friday’s edition of Your View.
Afolabi-Brown, who was fired from her job at CMC Connect because of what she described as her “rebellious” tendencies said in an interview published by The Nation in September that her husband has been supportive of her career.
“Initially, he didn’t understand the part about mentioning things about the house in public… but eventually he is getting used to the fact that if you talk about yourself, people would want to express themselves better and open up a bit,” she told her interview.
Afolabi-Brown’s husband is a lawyer and a businessman.
