It was like obsession that Toke Makinwa found the strength to keep loving Maje as desperately as she did despite all the pain she was in, in the relationship. “Maje told her a day after their wedding in 2014 that he missed Anita Solomon.” In her book, ‘On becoming’ Toke further writes:
“I tried to talk to him…a deep conversation in the dark where we could bare our souls to each other. I asked why he wouldn’t let Anita go? What was it about her? With tears in my eyes and desperate to save my home, I was willing to learn, to become like her if that was what he wanted. If it was the sex, I asked him to teach me her moves. If it was her character I wanted to know, so I become what he saw in her. I was drained; I had no pride in that moment. I begged him to give us a chance”