

The first lady of Kwara State who came to inaugurate the building supported me. Some of my godparents also supported me because I told them that I wanted to sell amala,”
Talking about the time the franchise would cost her in the movie world,Iyabo boasted that she had it all figured out.“I can never quit my career for anything. I am a very organised person. When you are organised, you plan ahead.
My life is planned and that has helped me a
lot.Ojo who jokingly said that people now refer to her as ‘Iya alamala’
(amala seller) said that she is not ashamed to sell food some people
perceive to be local.“I am a local chic. I made a name for myself by
acting in my local dialect which is the Yoruba language and in our
culture, amala is the in-thing.
I am proud to be selling amala because that is
my culture. A Chinese man cannot be ashamed of owning a Chinese
restaurant. What I did was that I brought something perceived to be
local to the Island and I made it look posh. When something is local, it
does not mean that it is dirty.
People really long to eat amala and I am not
ashamed to be selling it.I opened the Abula Spot because I noticed that
on the Island, they do not really have anywhere you could go to get the
local dish unlike the way we do on the mainland.
i really love her courage and business mentality.
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