September 10, (THEWILL) – Last week, businesswoman, Alhaja Adepeju Muraina took time off fighting her co-wife, Ann Usiagu-Muraina, founder of FORTEM Micro Finance Bank, over properties left behind their late husband, Major-General Abdullahi Iyanda Muraina to mark the one-year anniversary of his death.
The grand Fidau which held at the late general’s residence in Ibadan was attended by prominent socialites, such as Senator Sharafadeen Alli, a former Secretary to the State Government; Senator Kola Balogun; former First lady of Oyo State, Alhaja Mutiat Ladoja; Nollywood actress, Bimbo Oshin and several others.
Expectedly, Alhaja Muraina’s co-wife wasn’t anywhere near the venue of the ceremony. The event took place within weeks of an earlier event where she received the Nigerian Institute of Management’s prestigious Fellowship Award.
Alhaja Muraina, who is the CEO of Mauve 21 Centre, one of the biggest event centres in Ibadan, expressed joy at her efforts being recognised by the institute, saying it would serve as an impetus to do more, while also paying glowing tributes to the memory of her late husband.
Recalling her long journey as a member of the institute, she was full of satisfaction to see it all crowned with the Fellowship Award. Ironically, her late husband was a onetime president of NIM. He passed on in September 2022 in a Dubai hospital at the age of 64. He died intestate, leaving a multi-billion-naira estate that includes event centres, shopping plazas, farmlands, petrol filling stations, houses and plots of lands in Abuja and his home state of Oyo, thus triggering a legal squabble, between his two wives. The second wife, Ann has dragged the first wife to court challenging the distribution of the late general’s properties to his heirs in accordance with Islamic law. Alhaja Adepeju’s control of the property is now being challenged and caveat emptor has now been placed on the properties numbering 19, including six vehicles, three of which are bullet-proof.
Before his voluntary retirement after 35 years as a Major General, late Muraina held various roles in the Nigerian army. A fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, he was the Chief of Accounts and Budgets in the Army.
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