June 27, (THEWILL) – Femi Otedola is a very doting father to his four children. He isn’t like the average Nigerian father who spends most of his time providing only for his family without making out time to bond with them. Not so with Femi who makes sure to spend as much time with his children as possible.
He often showers them with expensive gifts and even partakes in their playful pranks. But there is one aspect of his life that the billionaire prefers to keep under wraps.
Unknown to many, Femi’s famous wife, Nana, isn’t his first wife nor the mother of his first child. Long before he married Nana and became wealthy, he was involved in a whirlwind romance with a lady known as Olayinka Odukoya. At the time, his late father and former Governor of Lagos State, Sir Michael Otedola, was still operating a printing press and far from becoming governor.
Olayinka, who had just got admitted to the School of Nursing, Ikoyi, jettisoned her ambition to become a nurse when she became pregnant and was delivered of Femi’s first daughter, Olawunmi Christie Tolani, who is today a singer and the most quiet of the Otedola girls.
Olayinka was only 21 years old at the time, but she was helplessly in love with Femi and both allegedly swore an oath never to leave each other. However, Femi’s mother, Lady Doja, would have none of this. She kicked against the relationship, took Tolani away from her mother when she was a little over a year old and denied Olayinka access to father and daughter.
All efforts by Olayinka to make contact with Femi and her daughter over the past years have so far proved abortive. And if there is one wish she prays would come true, it is to be reconciled with her daughter. Unfortunately she never got married because of her experience with Femi Otedola, but she has another daughter for another man whom she dated for a while.
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