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How Samuel Adedoyin’s Grandaught­er, Dedun Olobayo’s Marriage to Temi Kolawole Crashed

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Nobody knew when or how love waned in the marriage of Temi Kolawole, one of the aides to Senator Bukola Saraki and his wife, Dedun Olobayo, the granddaugh­ter of Chief Samuel Adedoyin, but everybody knew when their marriage crashed. It was the saddest news ever. Friends and family watched in consternat­ion as rancour and hate intruded the couple’s bliss, leaving them wretched in love.

Contrary to popular belief that the couple enjoyed a great marriage, the reverse was the case. Conflict and distrust bordering on infidelity frequently marred their union. Eventually the couple fell

To party across the seas is to assert your affluence and position among the rich upper class. Thus, everybody wants to host the most expensive bash across the high seas, in the hallowed circuits of Nigeria’s high society. Trust billionair­e corporate guru, Chief Pascal Dozie, the owner of Diamond Bank, who doesn’t do things in half measures. He threw a never-to-be-forgotten wedding ceremony for his son, Chijoke Dozie in Portugal some days ago.

For the first dance, the groom, Chijoke stared into the eyes of his bride, Ifunanya Sunshine, as if he meant to rediscover a familiar treasure trove. Sunshine looked even more ready to interlock with him in body, mind, spirit and soul. The couple filled up each other’s glances with muted affectatio­n of undying love. It was a charming, corny, over-the-top moment at an event most noteworthy, perhaps, for how it drew the crème of Nigeria and Portugal’s high societies to celebrate with the new couple.

Chijoke, a co-founder and CEO of OneFi, a digital financial lender, hails from an enviable pedigree; the son of a billionair­e businessma­n, presented out of love and their marriage hit the rock thus affirming fears that they lacked the patience and enduring maturity to surmount the storms of matrimony.

Back when the going was good, the couple was the envy of many who constantly craved and wished for their kind of union. Temi persistent­ly doted over Dedun who runs StylemeAfr­ica publicly and in private thus eliciting gasps of envy from spinsters and even other men’s wives. But not for too long!

However, in the highest boughs of her marriage, love rustled like branches of a dying oak with roots falling off and like several other couples whose passion and affection extinguish­ed in the raging inferno of midlife crisis and love gone sour, Dedun and Temi’ marriage died amid trials.

That was too much for Dedun. So disenchant­ed was she with marriage that she flinched whenever it was mentioned to her; anger curdled with regret leapt out of her distressed soul, like knives from the sleeves of a medieval Samurai. While Dedun’s friends dismissed allegation­s of infidelity in her name, her estranged husband couldn’t suffer in silence while his wife’s alleged lover continuall­y ravaged her without a care in the world. So long!

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