'It hurts,' Tuface narrates experience of attack on social media over his kids

Ace singer, Innocent Ujah Idibia, popularly known as Tuface or 2Baba, has responded to social media trolls who call him a deadbeat dad.

A dead beat dad is a term used in describing a father who dodges his parental responsibilities,

Tuface, irked by the description, wondered why those who hurl the hurtful insults at him, have not made an attempt to volunteer payment of his children’s school fees.

The father of seven bared his mind during an interview on the Afrobeats podcast hosted by British-Nigerian media personality, Adesope Olajide.

He said: “Many people talk about kids, fatherhood, motherhood, all that whole circle. Many people talk about it with public opinion type of thinking. But it’s deeper than that. There’s nobody that has the exact blueprint for this thing.

“The basic truth of the whole matter is the connection with you and your little ones. There are so many different ways to find it. There’s no one rule or one particular way.

“I speak to my kids like say they be my mates. I don’t boss them around. I talk to them the way I talk to my friends and mom.

“I get a lot of jabs. I got a lot of people that say stuff about me. People have trolled me severally on social media. Sometimes it hurts. Sometimes some people will just go on social media to say rubbish. It’s just like terrorists bombing innocent people.

“And I will start wondering how till today, none of those critics the way they are concerned about my family come to assist in paying my children’s school fees. Not even a single soul.”