Union of the Fayoses and Abduls: A Model Wedding Ceremony

There is much in this life that wealth and influence can accomplish. Unbelievers of this fact would not have been invited to the wedding ceremony of the Fayoses and Abduls. As Oluwanigba Fayose and Olamide Abdul tied the knots of wedlock, dignitaries from all over Nigeria bore witness to the union with happy cheers.

Saturday, October 23, 2021, will be remembered as a special day for months to come. It was the day that saw The Monarch Event Centre in Lekki Peninsula II, Lagos, overflowing with aristocratic grace and panache. It was a day that saw political battle lines erased as wine glasses clink in the festive October afternoon. A day when grandeur was renamed after the order of the Fayoses and Abduls.

The event that saw Oluwanigba win Olamide to his side forever had the groom’s father, former Ekiti State governor, Ayo Fayose, dancing without a care in the world. His wife, Feyisetan and his in-laws, Adekunle and Moji Abdul, were no less ecstatic about the union of their two families.

Both the former governor and his prominent businessman in-law were joined by a rich company of luminaries.

These included Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State; incumbent Governor Kayode Fayemi and former Governor Segun Oni of Ekiti State; Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers; former Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola of Osun State; Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State; Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ooni of Ife; Senator Ademola Adeleke, a gubernatorial aspirant for Osun State; Senator Biodun Olujimi of Ekiti State, and several others.

There were also captains of industry, including Aare Dele Momodu, super media boss and publisher; Taiwo Afolabi, founder and CEO of SIFAX Group; Hajia Tai Elemesho Okesanjo, Montai boss; Madam Folake Ojelu, the Iyalaje of Ijora kingdom, to name a few.

Such a large and diverse assembly of dignitaries has not happened in a long time in Nigeria, not one that crosses ethnic, religious, political and even regional lines. Obviously, the union of the Fayoses and Abduls played the role of a grand event.

It will be difficult to repeat this level of grandeur in the months to come. In fact, Olamide’s wedding to Oluwanigba might be the most deafening ceremony for the last quarter of 2021.