Nigerian Comedian AY Attributes Career Success to Mum’s Parting Words

On Jul 10, 2023

Nigerian Comedian, Ayo Makun popularly known as AY, has shared how his mom’s ‘parting’ message propelled him to forge ahead in life despite challenges.

He recalled how his mother admonished him against engaging in vices while in the university, hammering on the fact that he needed to live an exemplary life for the sake of his younger ones who were banking on him as their father was no more.

The multi-talented comedian explained how the words stuck and guided him from straying and how he strived really hard to see how himself and siblings go through school.

Attributing all of his life’s successes so far to Makun matriarch’s last words of admonition to him, AY stated in an interview with Nancy Isime that, “I came home to ask for money that I needed for school, and the money wasn’t available. And then, we had lost my dad”

“So, my mum was seeing me off, she was practically walking me on the street and encouraging me. She said, “You know Yomi is looking up to you, Lanre is looking up to you. Your younger ones are looking up to you. Don’t go and do anything funny, don’t be a part of any cult.’

“But the money dem never give me o wey I find come o but dem dey encourage me.

‘I know that it’s difficult, but then, just know that your younger ones are looking up to you. Don’t go and do anything stupid. God will do it at the right time’, his mom added.

“Do you know how touching it will be getting all that messages from your mum, and then you get a call while in school that you’ve lost your mum?

“So, all of that moulded me like, okay, this is going to make me live a certain way of life. That was what gave me the boost to work extra hard to see myself through school, see my younger ones through school.

“It was her message. Her message was more like, ‘Your younger ones are looking up to you.’ That message was what gave me the foundation of everything that makes me stand out today.”

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