By Olajiire Ishola
The death rumour of the first wife of the Senator Isiake Adeleke, Farida, has been debunked and described as “a false report.”
A member of the Adeleke extended family, Bidemi Oluwatosin, told Daily Sun in Ede, Osun State, that the “false report has been round especially in the social media that the first wife of the late Senator Isiaka Adeleke, Chief (Mrs.) Farida Adeleke, died in 1991 in an auto accident.”
She insisted “the report as wicked, malicious and defamatory in nature.”
Reacting to what a woman Adenike Adeleke allegedly granted in an interview to a blog allegedly owned by one Kemi, she said the woman claimed that she married late Senator Isiaka Adeleke, aka Serubawon in 2000 after Adeleke lost his first wife, who died in an auto crash in Lagos in 1991.
Oluwatosin quoted the woman in the purported interview as saying: “I met him in 1991, when I was a 21-year-old. Though I had met him earlier in 1987, there was nothing happening between us.
“By the time he just came back from the United States of America, I was in Osogbo and met him at a friend’s place. Then, it was one of these festive periods and he saw me and asked me out. I fled.
“ I was afraid that he was older than me. But he did not give up and gradually, I was attracted to his good nature and by 2000, we got married.
“I am very lucky to have married a man, who is kind, generous, a people’s man and who identified with whatever challenges are in your life.”
Oluwatosin said: “Any right thinking man who dissects these utterances would see that such person is a gold digger and that she is after the properties of the deceased. The woman granted such scandalous interview when she supposed to be mourning her husband. What kind of love is that when eight days Fridau prayer of her so-called husband had not been observed.
“Both our culture and Islamic religion forbid any widow to talk about a late husband in public until after 40 days. And that such woman is not supposed to go out for the period of those 40 days.”
Oluwatosin appealed to the general public to discountenance with such reckless utterances: “Chief (Mrs.) Farida Faustina Adeleke is alive and still mourning the death of her husband. The family would soon come out to clear the air on the issue.”