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Veteran Nollywood actor, Jide Kosoko has said he never planned to marry more than one woman although he is from a polygamous family himself.

Speaking in a recent chat with Vanguard, the 61-year-old popular actor stated that he never envisaged being a polygamist though he is a product of one. Even more interesting is his disclosure that his parents didn’t support it too. ‘My first wife was a business woman. I craved for somebody who was in the same field with me. In those days, the best advice you got was from your better half and that was how the second woman came to be. Along the line, I lost the two to childbirths within 11months interval.

‘I had seven children as at that time, so I didn’t plan remarrying or having more children again. But after much persuasion from my doctor and relatives, I decided to have a woman with the agreement of not having more children but a complete African woman will not agree to that. One thing led to the other and I got two women again. So being a polygamist was not intentional but God’s design over which I do not have power.’