Ayodele soyode awolowo biography
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Obafemi Awolowo
Nigerian statesman (1909–1987)
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A wealth of Ikenne in Ogun State heed south-western Nigeria,[6&# • Adeola Balogun and Tunde Ajaja The father of the wife of the Vice-President, Mrs. Dolapo Osinbajo, Elder Olutayo Soyode, says in spite of his daughter’s position and the exalted office of her husband, he dreads going to Aso Rock for a visit. He said going to the villa was like going to jail, given the way his movement would be monitored and he would need to sign various forms before he could go out, for security reasons. Speaking in an exclusive interview with Saturday PUNCH on Friday, the 74-year-old said he loved to be free and he wasn’t the type to sit in one place and be watching television under heavy security. Soyode, who was a close associate and son-in-law to late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, explained that it was the will of God that Prof. Yemi Osinbajo rose from being a university lecturer to become the Vice-President, and that all her daughter wanted to be was a confectioner despite being a qualified lawyer. He recalled that by the time his late wife, (Dolapo’s mother) was delivered of Dolapo in the United Kingdom where they met, he was believing God to have a male child, as it was customary in his family to have a male as their first child. However, he said if • Second Lady of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023 Oludolapo Osinbajo, (néeSoyode, born 16 July 1967) is a Nigerianlawyer who served as the second lady of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023, as the wife of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.[1] Oludolapo Soyode was born on 16 July 1967 and grew up in Ikenne, Ogun State.[2] She attended the International School Ibadan.[3] She is a grand-daughter of Obafemi Awolowo, who was a Nigerian nationalist and Yorubachief,[1] and his wife Hannah Awolowo, through Awolowo's daughter Ayodele Soyode (née Awolowo). She married Yemi Osinbajo, a distant cousin, on 25 November 1989. In 1990, she was called to the Nigerian Bar.[2] Osinbajo is the executive director of The Women's Helping Hand Initiative, a refuge facility in Epe, Lagos, established in 2014, and a co-founder of the Orderly Society Trust. In September 2019, she presided at the 49th Benue Women in Prayer (BEWIP) Prayer Convocation in Makurdi.[4] She also inaugurated Mama Abyol Children's Home and Benue Centre for Enterprise Development and Innovation (BENCEDI). In her speech to young people in Benue State, she warned them against attempting to copy illu
Visiting my daughter in Aso Villa is like going to jail –Soyode, father of Vice-President’s wife
Dolapo Osinbajo
Early life and career
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