f fortune can be harvested as gold and silver grapes
and blessings flourish like leaves and silver fleurs-de-
lys, the life-path and home of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu
would glitter like a barn full of treasure and a life well
spent. Tinubu is that powerful!
However, the idyllic city of Milan, Italy, will once again
open its bowels to the crème of Nigerian society in few
days, 9th and 10th August. Milan will creak at the eaves
for Nigerian politicians. Seyi Tinubu, the son of Asiwaju
Bola Tinubu, two-time governor of Lagos State and All
Progressives Congress (APC) leader, is getting married
to Layal Holm, his Lebanese lover of months.
Expectedly, Tinubu is leaving no stone unturned to give
his son a wondrous wedding. Until their union, they
were like jagged pieces of two glass hearts yearning for
their missing parts.
Then they found each other and fit perfectly in place.
The first molded with the second and in the heat of the
moment, held from head to toe. A perfect masterpiece, a
love so high it despises going low. Predictably, many
people are eager to be part of the memorable
celebration. Not a few people have been jostling to lay
their hands on a copy of the invite, but unfortunately, it
would be easier to embark on a round-trip through the
Bermuda triangle than to get the invitation card. That is
how scarce and exclusive the party would be.
Seyi is a Law graduate. He acquired his LLB degree from
the prestigious University of Buckingham, United
Kingdom. He acquired his Masters in Corporate &
Commercial Law at the same university where he came
out on merit. Layal on the other hand, is of Lebanese
and Nigerian descent. She is said to be a brilliant
consultant at foremost auditing firm, Price Waterhouse
Cooper (PWC). The 25-year-old is a graduate of Political
Science and African Studies at the SOAS (School of
Oriental Studies) University of London. She also has a
Masters in Entrepreneurship & Business Management
from the University of Surrey.
FAILED HEALTH! GODSWILL AKPABIO’S WIFE, UNOMA,
TERRIBLY SICK
Decay and disease are never beautiful, they bring
perfect misery to the fairest of mortals’ imperfect body
and soul, like the translucent tear of the shellfish and
the hectic glow of high fever. Ask Senator Godswill
Akpabio, he knows better now. It almost snuffed life out
of his wife, Unoma and cast his family in the vicious
grip of inconsolable grief. The news of Unoma’s
debilitating ailment resonated like murderous of a mad
mob hounding its prey to sad death.
The story caused panic within Nigeria’s socio-economic
space. However, like random malevolent news at the
end of its spell, news of her sickness dissipated into
thin air to make room for the reality of her existence.
Unoma evaded the long, cold clasp of death when she
slipped into coma after a major surgery in a German
hospital. Although, her husband, Senator Akpabio, who
has been talking about her health to everybody who
cares to listen, has not revealed the actual nature of her
ailment, but people have begun to speculate about the
nature of her affliction.
Their speculations of course, vary from the logical and
moderate to the improbable and extremely wild. Sources
close to them, gave subtle hints about the true nature of
her affliction. The details will be revealed in due course.
FAIR-WEATHER FRIENDS…GOV. FAYOSE’S FRIENDS,
ASSOCIATES DESERT HIM
•FEAR OF EFCC SCARES FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES OF
EKITI GOVERNOR
Governor Ayodele Fayose is not a man of steel. Having
realised that, his coterie of friends and political
associates have stopped ennobling him as a warrior
forged of steel and decades of exposure in a burning
furnace. The secret is out: when the going gets tough
and the heat intensifies, even a tough-talking Ayo
Fayose loses his nerve and exaggerated wits. Indeed,
the loquacious and highly controversial governor of Ekiti
State may have met his waterloo in the successive
intrigues bedeviling his government and political career.
But while he stews in boiling waters, his closest friends
and associates have deserted him. Friends and political
associates of Governor Fayose began to avoid him soon
after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC) froze his bank accounts and commenced
investigations about his alleged role in embezzlement of
and diversion of public funds amounting to billions of
naira.
Immediately the EFCC pronounced him as a person of
interest in its ongoing anti-corruption campaign and
investigations, most of Fayose’s friends vanished from
his side and his corridors into thin air. Many other
political associates and acquaintances who flaunted
their relationship with him are now denying having
anything to do with him. Before now, the home and
office of the one-week-one-trouble politician were
constantly filled with friends, politicians, contractors,
favour seekers and hangers on. But now, his office is
nothing better than a deserted island just like his home.
The impending wrath of the EFCC has caused him to
withdraw from the public glare until things cool off.
BACK FROM THE BRINK…JIDE SANWOOLU ENJOYS
SECOND CHANCE
•HOW LAGOS GOVERNOR, AKINWUMI AMBODE, RESCUED
FADED SOCIALITE FROM OBSCURITY
Second chance is a treat for the man who had
experienced fortune and rank only to lose it. Ask Jide
Sanwoolu. The former Lagos commissioner has finally
reencountered bliss in trying hours, like the sojourner
who discovers a babbling brook in the middle of the
Sahara. Jide has a reason to smile again after a long
hiatus from the business and political scene.
It would be recalled that he served as the Executive
Director of Marketing and Divisional Head of Real
Specialties at Real Groups Ltd. While there, he
coordinated the sales and marketing activities of the
Specialties division. He also served as the commissioner
for Establishment and Training between 2004 and 2005.
It was gathered that Jide who also worked for former
deputy governor of Lagos, Femi Pedro, allegedly left him
to sustain his loyalty to former Lagos governor, Bola
Tinubu. Jide worked closely with Tinubu’s wife, Senator
Oluremi. But soon after his stint in the corridors of
power, he faded off the political scene. Rumour had it
that he got caught in certain intrigues that left him flat
broke and without a political base. Jide was totally
forgotten and abandoned in his time of need.
Nothing was heard of him again until very recently when
Governor Akinwumi Ambode came to his aid and
restored him to political limelight by appointing him as
the MD/CEO of Lagos State Property Development
Corporation (LSDPC). Thus Jide currently controls major
properties in Lagos as you read. This no doubt gives
him cause to smile after suffering the torment of
abandonment in the political wilderness.
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