Veteran actor, Abiodun Ayoyinka, has officially introduced a new stage name, Bondu Alaska, moving away from the character Papa Ajasco that made him famous over the decades.<\/p>\n
In a video shared on social media, Ayoyinka presented himself under the new identity and thanked Nigerians for their support during a period of public attention following his viral interviews.<\/p>\n
He encouraged fans and brands to recognise him as Bondu Alaska going forward.<\/p>\n
He has also updated his Instagram handle to reflect the new name.<\/p>\n
\u201cLadies and Gentlemen, good morning Nigerians. My name is Bondu Alaska. The one and only Bondu Alaska,\u201d <\/em>he said in the clip.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to use this medium to thank Nigerians because they have done a lot in my life. I\u2019m a new person now, and I promise that I will not let you down,\u201d<\/em> he added.<\/p>\n The name change comes after a public dispute with Wale Adenuga<\/strong>, founder of Wale Adenuga Productions, over the rights to the Papa Ajasco brand.<\/p>\n Ayoyinka explained that he could not use the Papa Ajasco name for commercial projects because it is trademarked by the production company.<\/p>\n He also discussed challenges he faced financially, noting that he had not gained the expected benefits despite playing the character for many years.<\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Veteran actor, Abiodun Ayoyinka, has officially introduced a new stage name, Bondu Alaska, moving away from the character Papa Ajasco that made him famous over the decades. In a video shared on social media, Ayoyinka presented himself under the new identity and thanked Nigerians for their support during a period of public attention following his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":241956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Papa-Ajasco.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}