TVC E. Like a gust of fresh summer wind, sultry actress, Sobola Sotayo, a graduate of sociology from Olabisi Onabanjo University Ogun State, is slowly and steadily winning the day as the next biggest thing in the Yoruba movie industry.
As a movie producer, presenter, model, entrepreneur, philanthropist and video vixen, Sotayo is indeed poised to rule as queen in her own part of the world. With productions like Bella, Arewa Onijogbon, Copper Jide, to name a few, Sotayo signed her name into the hall of big movie makers and obtained her own visa to fame.
With fame, oftentimes comes fortune, and with them definitely are some prices. No sooner had her name become a song on people’s lips than unsavoury rumours began to circulate about her.
With every success she records, there is a whisper that she has been padded by one big man or the other. As a not-too-old face on the scene, people have been wondering where she got the money to shoot big budget films she has been shooting consistently over the years.
How she gets funds to shoot her film “I started making money at an early stage of my life, because I was doing a whole lot of buying and selling. I had the opportunity of travelling abroad frequently, so I get stuff which I sell here in Nigeria. I have people award series of contracts to me, and jobs to do for them.
Through these means, I was able to raise the funds to shoot those movies. I have always been frugal with my spending and do a lot of savings from my proceeds. With the kind of money I made, some might want to buy a car with their money, and some, for other purposes. For me, the little money I had then, I decided to use to make my own movie.”
Her relationship with Senator Ganiyu Solomon and MC Oluomo Some have hinted that it is the Senator that is behind her business and projects wings since they are very close. Sometimes, the actress lovingly displays the picture of the Senator on her Blackberry, showering him with encomiums and prompting many to suggest that they must have intimate relationship.
Her association with Lagos socialite, MC Oluomo is not a secret as well, and this too has brought about many runours. The actress explains: “Well, if some people don’t see you with any man and they eventually see you with somebody, especially when you have things going well for you, they assume you are having an affair with that individual is a person you can’t hide or run away from, apparently, I don’t have any issues with him, so, I see no reason to avoid him.
I don’t have any kind of romance with him; but as regards Senator Ganiu Solomon, he is like a father to me” She and singer, Olamide No doubts, she and Olamide have got something going for each other but according to the actress, it is nothing intimate. She has appeared in a couple of his music videos and she is almost always present at his shows. “Olamide is much more like a brother from another mother,” she said of the singer. “His humility has made him achieve so much and he is still going to achieve more.
