Tunde Ayeni’s Wife, Biola, Reveals How She Handled Adaobi Alagwu’s Threat to Her Marriage

She is hardly seen and rarely heard. Yet, Abiola is the fundamental force behind some of the savoury successes of the billionaire businessman, lawyer, and former chairman of the defunct Skye Bank, Olatunde Ayeni. When Ayeni, the popular businessman, is junketing the world, closing deals, and breaking new grounds, Abiola, the irrepressible nexus holding their close-knit family together, is with the kids wherever their education takes them, and praying for her husband’s success and safety.

Being married to one of Nigeria’s wealthiest men comes with a lot of perks and attention; the envy of friends and associates who would give a limb to swap places with you for one day; the cynosure of eyes at all gatherings; luxury vacations in the world’s most scenic destinations; private jet travels; luxury shopping at the ritziest fashion capitals; servants at your beck and call and a whole lot more.

However, Abiola is no trophy wife; she met Tunde at the Law School but she stopped practising law to concentrate on taking care of the family. So, beyond the facade and fame of billionaire Tunde, she knows her husband more than anybody else. Hence, she stated without equivocation in a chat with THISDAY recently that regardless of what the media portrays him as; “A successful man is a target for people to say all manner of things. That is when you need to know who you are married to. Some publications come out and people will start calling frantically but I tell them, I am fine. I don’t listen to hearsay because I have my husband beside me. When I need to clarify things, I take it up with him. We don’t hide anything from each other. He knows I will stand by him any day so whatever anybody says, I know my husband. He is a good-natured person, he has a good heart, he is loyal, and he will go to any length for anyone.”

She discountenanced the allegations and rumours of Tunde’s alleged dalliances with several women, saying that to be married to such a successful man, “You just have to trust God concerning him because there are so many distractions and challenges out there.”

She also rubbished the allegations of Adaobi Alagwu, an Abuja-based lady who claims that Tunde is the father of her child.

According to Abiola, “As regards the one Adaobi Alagwu, alleging that my husband is the father of her child, how old is the baby? She is just a gold digger. When you even look at the age gap, it becomes an insult. From where to where? I just dismissed the report because as far as I am concerned, it is not something that I want to believe or dwell on.”

Abiola said further that Adaobi is an impostor, because, “my husband is not a flirt. She knows what she did but I am 110% sure that the child does not belong to my husband. She just wants to disgrace herself. She is just a gold digger. That girl is a child. When a child who knows where her mates are could not find any of them to date; she is gold-digging.”

She added, “She knows what she did and how she arranged whatever she said. But I am 100% sure that the baby is not my husband’s own. The allegation has in no way affected my marriage or my home. No impostor can break into my home. My husband is not missing. I received some anonymous texts at the inception of this rubbish and I told the person, “Listen to me, my home is not shaking. My home cannot be broken into because it is standing firmly on the rock of Christ. If you open your eyes, you will see a wall of fire around my home. No one can penetrate.”

The brain behind Divine Endowments Limited, one of the fastest-growing fashion houses in Nigeria, with the mission to deliver fitting at its very best in bespoke and ready-to-wear garments, Abiola has mastered the art of channelling the negativities that come with her husband’s prestige and prominence into carving a niche for herself in the fashion industry.

Established in 1998, Divine Endowments has since its inception, constantly narrowed the wide gap between foreign and locally-made garments through their pattern-making and styling techniques. Their design skills distinguish them in the local fashion industry, making them a foremost fashion brand in Africa. Their apparel is produced with a keen eye on fashion trends, always keeping the design trendy yet drawing from the experience of their rich heritage, and using African print fabrics to create modern designs and styles to suit people of different shapes and sizes.