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NEWS OBASANJO SNATCHES KINSMAN’S WIFE-How the Love tryst between OBJ and Mrs. Adegbenro evolved into a criminal enterprise

September 14, 2006
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 The Adegbenro family is in turmoil.  Bola, an Ilisan-Remo woman married to Adesina Adegbenro, the present Commissioner of Agriculture and Natural Resources in Ogun State, has chosen to be unfaithful to her marital vows.

 

The Adegbenros are pigued because Bola’s choice of lover is their kin; Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria’s sitting president.  Both the Adegbenros and Obasanjo are both from Owu quarters in Abeokuta.

 

Bola, said to be in her mid 40s, is an Ilisan-Remo socialite.  How she met Obasanjo is hazy, but their love affair, first a discrete affair, is now an open affair and has left her matrimonial home in shambles.

 

She indeed had ample opportunity to show her love for fashionable parties and power recently when she performed the funeral rites of her late father in Ilisan-Remo.  It was a ceremony with all the paraphernalia of power-security forces, money.  Indeed, she is referred to as Mrs. President behind her back.  The woman, who frequents Abuja, has a favored guest house for her trysts with Mr. President: House 23.

 

Engineer Shina Adegbenro, when contacted, was livid that TEMPO had run a minor piece on his wife’s infidelity without speaking to him.  “I don’t talk to journalists except on official matters.  You should have spoken to me before you wrote your story originally.  I have told you that I have no problem with Obasanjo”.

 

Indeed, Adegbenro’s anger is really directed at his wife, who allowed herself to be charmed away by the President.  TEMPO also learnt that elders in the family had stepped in to douse a very embarrassing matter by invoking traditional methods of appeasement.  It is indeed because of such measures that Adesina Adegbenro, a father of four, tried not to make the matter a press issue.

 

Obasanjo knows how to navigate the treacherous waters of infidelity.  When Stella, the present consort and Oluremi, another wife, had a long media war of legitimacy in the 80s, he characteristically doused it:  “Oluremi and Stella and anybody else that may be so married are legitimate and real wives of Olusegun Obasanjo.”

 

Obasanjo’s marriage to Oluremi, the daughter of an Egba chief, in 1963, only lasted 13 years.  Though the marriage produced the first five of Obasanjo’s kids, it collapsed mainly because, according to the woman, Obasanjo couldn’t just keep his fly up.  Any how, the long list of women he was to acquire thereafter went to prove that the woman was right.

 

OBJ has courted Stella Abebe for years without success.  But Stella had to come running to him when the coup against Yakubu Gowon catapulted him to be nation’s number two position.

 

Stella has weathered the storm of OBJ’s infidelities.  There was gold Oruh, a journalist, who went to interview the General and shared his bed.  There was also a Linda, a pretty woman who was assassinated in Lagos in the 80s.

 

There is Taiwo and a Major Moji Obasanjo.  Another Ibo lady had two sons for him.  Yet another woman in Jos had a son for him.  Onukaba Adinoyo Ojo, his biographer, said of Obasanjo:  “In all, there would be nearly two dozens of them (children) from half as many women,” lines that have since being overtaken by Obasanjo’s virility.  But he did say something of the President that still holds true – “In all honesty, Obasanjo has a major weakness of women…” and, perhaps, a strength of loins that has not receded with age.


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