In a recent interview with Punch, Yomi Casual (Comedian Ay’s brother) talked about his crazy love for cars and his fiancee, see excerpts below:
Who owns the car you post on your Instagram account?
It
is actually a Chrysler 300, all pimped out. That is my recent baby. I
call that car my baby because I love cars a lot. I got the car in 2012
and it cost me about N4m. My next car is going to be very crazy, I am
going for a monster truck. I’m just living my life like my mentor, Mudi.
If you know him, he has crazy cars. You would just see his number plate
on one flashy vintage car. Now he just got a 505, 1958 model, very
crazy. I love crazy stuffs. I used to drive a vintage Ford. It is a
pimped out Ford. It was just two of us that own that edition of Ford in
the whole of Lagos. They know me with that car, it is like my brand. If
you see that car, you will know that Yomi is coming. What I want to go
for now is a monster truck; the ones with the really big tyres. I just
want to make a statement with that truck.”
What is it like being AY’s brother?
Being AY’s
brother has affected my business positively. Everybody knows me with
AY. If you see AY, you see Yomi Casual. I am about the only designer
that has his advert on DSTv. You know what it takes to put your advert
on DSTv. My advert is there courtesy of the AY show. I am everywhere.
The Yomi Casual brand is so big, it is bigger than me. People see me and
ask ‘are you the Yomi’? They sometimes say I look so small. The name is
so much bigger than me that I try to cope when I am out.
How about your fiancé?
My childhood girlfriend,
she knows me as Omoniyi Makun not Yomi Casual. We started the
relationship in Warri. I am in a distant relationship. It is not easy
but God has been helping me. She is from Warri, Delta State. She knew me
when I started, when I was still an artist, then I used to do hand-made
cards, signboards in Warri. We met one fateful day while it was
raining. She helped me with an umbrella and that was how we met.
How come you are still together?
I
still don’t know. She is not a very beautiful girl. You know Lagos, if
you are a celebrity, you want to marry a very beautiful girl; a red
carpet wife. My mentor told me, ‘Yomi, don’t follow Lagos people oo and
say you want to marry a red carpet wife. There is a red carpet wife and
there is the real wife’. I am not after a red carpet wife because with a
red carpet wife, you don’t know what the man is facing inside the
house. You see them outside looking all clean and you wish to be like
them. When they get indoors and you see what the man is going through,
you will not want to marry a beautiful girl. My fiancé is God-fearing,
very wise, same age group.
