Anambra State Governor Charles Soludo and First Lady Nonye Soludo had social media talking again this week after joining their son, Ozonna Soludo, in a playful dance to his Afro-pop single “Big Flex.” The clip, shared by Ozonna on Tuesday, July 28, 2026, shows the family moving together in a relaxed home setting, trading smiles and coordinated steps.
Ozonna, who goes by “Baby Oku” to his fans, posted the clip with a caption in his usual playful register: “The people’s president Baby Oku was joined by the Governor & First Lady of Anambra to dance the international national anthem Big Flex. #BigFlex.”
The video spread quickly across TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and X, pulling in thousands of reactions within hours. Many viewers praised the easy chemistry between father and son, while others read it as a pointed answer to weeks of online chatter questioning whether the two were on good terms.
A Public Show of Support
Seeing a sitting Nigerian governor loosen up and dance alongside his son isn’t something that happens often, and that’s part of why the clip resonated. Soludo and the First Lady both looked completely at home in front of the camera, and the moment has largely been read as the couple publicly backing their son’s music career and the freewheeling lifestyle that comes with it.
That reading gains weight given what happened just weeks earlier. Ozonna posted a video dancing to a viral protest-style track whose lyrics called out several major political figures, including President Bola Tinubu, Senate President Godswill Akpabio, FCT Minister Nyesom Wike, and his own father. He kept dancing straight through the line naming Governor Soludo, and that single choice was enough to set off speculation that things weren’t smooth between father and son. No solid evidence ever backed that theory up, and some of the reports pushing it were later quietly withdrawn.
A Family With a Lot Going On Lately
The dance video also lands in the middle of a genuinely busy few weeks for the Soludos. Just days earlier, on July 23, the governor and First Lady traveled to the United Kingdom to watch their daughter, Oduko Soludo, graduate from the University of Nottingham with a First Class Honours degree in Neuroscience — a demanding course of study by any measure, and one that earned the family plenty of well-deserved praise online. Ozonna wasn’t in any of the photos that circulated from the ceremony, though he posted motivational messages of his own around the same time before reuniting with his parents back home, a sequence that made the dance video feel like part of a broader stretch of good news for the family rather than a one-off moment.
Who Is Ozonna Soludo?
Born on February 11, 1994, Ozonna is the eldest of Governor Soludo’s six children. He spent part of his childhood in the United States before studying Vocal Performance at the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance in London, and he’s since built a career as a musician, songwriter, content creator and entrepreneur — he also runs a bead and jewellery business on the side.
Musically, he blends Afro-pop with more contemporary sounds, with “Big Flex” and the earlier “Take It Slow” among his released tracks. Online, he’s just as known for his high-energy dance videos, bold fashion sense, colorful hairstyles and a personality that doesn’t shy away from attention. That style has drawn its share of criticism, but it’s also built him a genuinely loyal following, and he’s said more than once that he’d rather stay authentic than shape himself around public expectations.
This isn’t even the first time his father has joined him on camera — the two did a similar “Big Flex” dance challenge back in 2025, a moment that was widely praised at the time for showing a more relaxed, family-oriented side of the former Central Bank of Nigeria governor.
Why It’s Resonating
Reaction to this latest video has skewed heavily positive. A lot of commenters said it was refreshing to watch a sitting governor take part in his son’s content rather than keep a stiff public distance from it, and plenty framed it as putting months of “are they on bad terms” speculation to rest for good.
There’s a bigger thread here too, about how public office and family life intersect in Nigeria. Children of prominent politicians are usually expected to stay in the background, but Ozonna has built his own identity through music, fashion and online content — visibly with his parents’ blessing rather than in spite of it.
“Big Flex” itself is just an upbeat song about relationships, nothing political, but between Ozonna’s online presence and its catchy rhythm, it’s kept finding its way back into public conversation. Whether people see this latest video as a simple family moment or a quiet response to the speculation of recent weeks, it’s given a lot of Nigerians a rare, human look at one of the country’s more prominent political families — and for Ozonna, another step in building something that’s genuinely his own, separate from his father’s office.
