Akin Olaiya’s Wife Explains Marital Crisis: “He Married My Best Friend”

Nafisat, the wife of Nigerian actor Akin Olaiya, has explained why she left their shared home.

According to DAILY POST, Olaiya married Nafisat in July 2025, several years after the end of his first marriage.

Rumours that the couple had separated appeared online less than five months after the wedding.

On June 22 2026, Olaiya confirmed the separation in a dissolution statement, saying that Nafisat had moved out of their matrimonial home without any crisis and that all attempts to bring her back had failed.

In a video posted on social media, Nafisat, who had previously accused Olaiya of abuse, revealed that she left the marriage after learning of the actor’s affair with her best friend, who had served as her chief bridesmaid at the wedding.

“Can you imagine that after the mistreatment, pain and everything, the said husband ends up marrying your own best friend,” she said. “So, what does that mean? It’s because I’m not just the type that will come to say my own side of the story. I’m not used to it because in my own culture they don’t train us like that,” she added.

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