From a 12-year marriage to Annie Idibia, seven children with three women and a new baby with Natasha, 2Baba’s complicated relationship history is again drawing public attention after an alleged confrontation in Abuja
The marriage between music star Innocent Idibia, popularly known as 2Baba, and Edo State lawmaker Natasha Osawaru has come under renewed public scrutiny following an alleged confrontation involving the couple outside a nightclub in Abuja on Friday night.
The incident occurred during the opening of 90s Lounge, where 2Baba was expected to perform, and quickly became a social-media talking point after videos purportedly showing the couple during the episode began circulating online.
The footage has provided only fragments of what happened, however, while the circumstances that preceded the reported confrontation remain unclear.
One account circulating online alleged that Natasha arrived at the venue before 2Baba, accompanied by some men, and waited for the singer before approaching his vehicle and demanding to speak with him. The videos in circulation do not, on their own, establish that account, although an eyewitness who claimed to have been at the scene gave a broadly similar version of events.
According to the eyewitness, Natasha approached 2Baba’s vehicle after his arrival and insisted on speaking with him before the two eventually went into the club together.
“Allegedly, 2Face and his latest wife, Natasha, haven’t been on good terms for months, and she hasn’t even been able to see him,” the eyewitness was quoted as saying. “She reportedly heard that the owner of Trukadero was opening a club called 90’s yesterday, so she went there and waited for 2Face. When he finally arrived, she rushed to his car and started making a scene, saying she wanted to see her husband and talk to him.”
Other accounts have alleged that the couple had been estranged for months and that 2Baba had told Natasha he was no longer interested in continuing the relationship. Those claims could not be independently verified.
The reported episode has nevertheless revived questions about a marriage that, from the outset, unfolded under an unusually intense public spotlight.
From Annie to Natasha
2Baba and Natasha’s relationship became public in early 2025, only weeks after the singer announced the end of his marriage to actress Annie Macaulay-Idibia.
The development generated enormous public interest because of the history behind the previous marriage. 2Baba and Annie first met in 1999, long before either became a fixture of Nigeria’s celebrity culture. Their relationship survived years of controversy before they eventually married, with their white wedding taking place in Dubai in March 2013.
They had two daughters, Isabella and Olivia.
After more than a decade of marriage, however, 2Baba announced in January 2025 that he and Annie had separated and that he had begun divorce proceedings. Annie subsequently confirmed the end of the relationship publicly. The couple’s marriage had been marked by recurring controversies, particularly those surrounding 2Baba’s relationship with Pero Adeniyi, with whom he has three children.
The separation was followed almost immediately by 2Baba’s public relationship with Natasha, an Edo State lawmaker. He proposed to her on Valentine’s Eve in February 2025, setting off another wave of public debate over the singer’s private life.
2Baba subsequently defended his decision to begin a new relationship, saying his attraction to Natasha was based less on physical appearance than on emotional compatibility and the ability to communicate freely.
The pair later formalised their relationship in a private traditional wedding ceremony in July 2025.
By November, the relationship had produced another major milestone: the birth of their son, giving 2Baba an eighth child. The baby was later publicly dedicated in church in February 2026.
Eight children, four relationships
The singer’s family history is as complex as the relationship narrative that has followed him for years.
Before his marriage to Annie, 2Baba had two sons, Nino and Zion, with Sumbo Adeoye. He also has three children — Ehikowoicho, Justin and Innocent Jr — with Pero Adeniyi.
His two daughters with Annie, Isabella and Olivia, brought the number to seven before the arrival of his son with Natasha took the total to eight.
The singer himself acknowledged the complexity of his family life during an interview earlier this year, saying he now has eight children and admitting that he had not always been the father he wanted to be.
That history has inevitably made his relationships a recurring subject of public fascination, particularly because several of the women connected to him have at different times occupied prominent places in the Nigerian entertainment and social landscape.
A marriage already under the microscope
The latest Abuja incident comes only months after 2Baba publicly rejected suggestions that Natasha controlled his movements or prevented him from performing.
In February, responding to speculation about tensions in the marriage, the singer described such reports as sensational and said disagreements were normal in relationships.
“There is nobody in this world that doesn’t get involved in disagreement once in a while,” he said at the time, dismissing claims that his wife was responsible for restrictions on his appearances.
That statement is now being revisited by social-media users following Friday night’s incident, although the latest confrontation should not, without further evidence, be treated as proof that the marriage is in crisis.
The couple have also endured intense public scrutiny since their relationship began. In December 2025, 2Baba publicly responded to allegations contained in a petition by members of his family against Natasha, including claims of bigamy, financial misconduct and assault. He rejected the allegations and said the family dispute had caused him considerable personal damage.
Neither those earlier allegations nor the latest nightclub episode, however, provides sufficient evidence by itself to establish the present state of the marriage.
For now, what is established is that videos from the Abuja nightclub have reignited intense public interest in a relationship that has been under scrutiny almost from the moment it began.
What remains unclear is what actually happened between the couple before the cameras started rolling — and whether Friday night was simply a private disagreement that spilled into public view or a sign of deeper trouble within a marriage that is barely a year old.
Sunday Scoop’s attempts to reach 2Baba’s management for clarification were unsuccessful, as the phone number was switched off as of the time of filing this report.
