Ovation magazine publisher, Dele Momodu, has shared a throwback photo of himself and his beautiful, Mobolaji. They apparently took the photo 30 years.
Hottest Throwback: on a special date with my sweetheart MOBOLAJI ADARAMAJA about 30 years ago… That was my official Peugeot car as Editor of CLASSIQUE magazine…
See photo below…
In a recent interview with City People, the ovation boss had this to say about his marriage…
My university was very excited to learn of my meteoric rise and I was soon honoured with an award. I travelled to Ife to accept my award. Unknown to me, Mobolaji was in the audience. As my citation was being read out, as I found out later, Mobolaji’s head was swelling like “Ijebu gaari.” Once I returned to my seat, a young boy walked up to me to convey a message. “Miss Mobolaji Adaramaja asked me to tell you she’s around and if she could see you briefly.”
I stood up humbly and followed him to where Bolaji was seated. She fired the first shot: “why have you not checked on me again? Is it because you didn’t get us cheaply?” I was quite uncomfortable with her barrage of questions and I tried to murmur a few words in response: “I felt you didn’t like me and so decided to let you be in peace.” We agreed to meet the following day and that was it. We never left each other again. She gave me a message to her older sister, Mrs Oluwatoyin Seriki, married to a pilot, Captain Rotimi Seriki, (of blessed memory) and living in Ikeja GRA. I was very happy to meet her sister, who turned out to be Mobolaji’s best friend. One thing led to another and Mobolaji and I became inseparable.
We had planned to get married in 1991 but an unfortunate mishap aborted our plans. Around September 1991, I resigned from my job at Classique because I had been promoted upstairs, and into redundancy, by my boss, and I felt it was time to move on. That move added one year to my bachelorhood. We eventually fixed another date, December 19, 1992, and our wedding was the talk of the town. A week to my wedding, on December 12, 1992, to be precise, Chief Moshood Abiola bagged a doctorate degree (honoris causa) from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, and I was there to witness the occasion and congratulate my mentor and benefactor, Chief Moshood Abiola. Instead of meeting one person, I met a second man who would change and affect my journey of life so massively in time to come. He is no other than Dr Mike Adenuga Jnr, who practically co-sponsored our wedding with Chief Abiola.
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