'Enough is enough' - Mikel Obi blows hot over entitled extended family members

Popular Nigerian football player Mikel John Obi is currently trending on social media after he criticized demanding and conceited family members.

During an interview with fellow football player Rio Ferdinand, the former captain of the Super Eagles mentioned that in Africa, family members usually have the right to inherit a person's wealth.

According to Mikel John Obi, when an African person gets money, a lot of cousins and relatives start to make demands. He added that some sisters even marry guys who think they are meant to be in Mikel John Obi's family.

The football player said that because these people have so many children and expect him to take care of them, he sometimes needs to be tough and put his own needs aside.

According to Mikel Obi, these relatives think he owes them money, and if he doesn't comply, they'll report him to the media, adding that it was common in Africa.

He said: “When you come from Africa, when you make money, it’s not your money. You have all these relatives, cousins, and your sisters go off and get married to some guy who just wants to get married into Mikel John Obi’s family because his life is sorted, and then you start looking after this guy, and before you know it, they keep having so many kids and you look at it like,

"Okay, you’re having this many kids, who are going to look after them?’ It’s you! It’s the culture because, for them, you owe them that, so sometimes you have to be strong and say, ‘You know what, guys, enough is enough; I don’t care’. They give you this thing whereby ‘if you don’t do it, we’re going to go to the press’. After all, what have I done for you guys? But this happens a lot in Africa. Not everybody comes out and speaks about it.”

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