Icheoku does not know why women do this, but the marriage of Ms Lara Fortes of Cape Verdes to Nigeria's Edo State's Governor Adams Oshiomhole is yet another example of a very highly suspicious marriage of convenience and not one founded on love? Query, if Adams Oshiomhole is not a governor, would Ms Lara Fortes ever have taken a second look at him, talkless of agreeing to marry him? Icheoku asks when looking at Adams Oshiomhole does Ms Lara Fortes see a governor and its attendant pecks and comfort or does she indeed actually see Adams Oshiomhole her husband or rather just look through him?
Icheoku asks who in this case is the trophy spouse and would she have said yes to a marriage proposal from such not so photogenic, height-challenged man and who is old enough to be her daddy, were Admans Oshiomhole not fully loaded? Could this lady honestly and sincerely say she fell for Adams Oshiomhole's charms and is indeed truly in love with him and not that she targeted the pecks that comes with his office including becoming the first lady of Edo State. A closer look at the lady and her body language shows one laboring under the weight of her decision and one who is not comfortable settling for such man as a husband but who circumstances has otherwise conspired against. The hope now going forward is that they will find something about each other that will enable them to stay married and learn to like and love each other; but Icheoku will not be surprised if the union's boat hits the rock as soon as the governor's term ends, if not sooner.
On the other hand, is it not surprising that a sitting governor who should be leading by example, abandoned all the many marriageable ladies in his home state of Edo and traveled to Cape Verdes, a former Portuguese colony, to marry a Portuguese descendant? Icheoku wonders why the governor did not choose for a wife, a Bini girl or an Edo State girl or even a Nigerian girl, instead of a foreigner? What type of example was the governor showing with his choice of a wife and how will the ladies in his Edo State now view him going forward; - a governor who did not see anything good in his state's women and opted for a foreign Portuguese trophy wife? Anyway what is done is done and all everyone including Icheoku can do now is to wish the couple a happily married life; but emphasizes that Governor Adams Oshiomhole, as a sitting governor, did not choose right by marrying a foreign lady; especially when there are so many unmarried ladies in Edo State and Nigeria that would have held the forte very well. To the newly married couple of Edo State, Governor Adams Oshiomhole and Mrs Lara Fortes Oshiomhole, Icheoku says all the best.
Icheoku asks who in this case is the trophy spouse and would she have said yes to a marriage proposal from such not so photogenic, height-challenged man and who is old enough to be her daddy, were Admans Oshiomhole not fully loaded? Could this lady honestly and sincerely say she fell for Adams Oshiomhole's charms and is indeed truly in love with him and not that she targeted the pecks that comes with his office including becoming the first lady of Edo State. A closer look at the lady and her body language shows one laboring under the weight of her decision and one who is not comfortable settling for such man as a husband but who circumstances has otherwise conspired against. The hope now going forward is that they will find something about each other that will enable them to stay married and learn to like and love each other; but Icheoku will not be surprised if the union's boat hits the rock as soon as the governor's term ends, if not sooner.
On the other hand, is it not surprising that a sitting governor who should be leading by example, abandoned all the many marriageable ladies in his home state of Edo and traveled to Cape Verdes, a former Portuguese colony, to marry a Portuguese descendant? Icheoku wonders why the governor did not choose for a wife, a Bini girl or an Edo State girl or even a Nigerian girl, instead of a foreigner? What type of example was the governor showing with his choice of a wife and how will the ladies in his Edo State now view him going forward; - a governor who did not see anything good in his state's women and opted for a foreign Portuguese trophy wife? Anyway what is done is done and all everyone including Icheoku can do now is to wish the couple a happily married life; but emphasizes that Governor Adams Oshiomhole, as a sitting governor, did not choose right by marrying a foreign lady; especially when there are so many unmarried ladies in Edo State and Nigeria that would have held the forte very well. To the newly married couple of Edo State, Governor Adams Oshiomhole and Mrs Lara Fortes Oshiomhole, Icheoku says all the best.
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Christy 'Apena' Essien-Igbokwe , the wife of Jegede Shokoya of the New Masquerade and Nigeria's lady of songs is dead; she was 51years old. Although her family claimed that "brief Illness" killed her like so many Nigerians; Icheoku retorts that it was most likely AKwa Ibom voodoo and remote control that was used to arrest her. It is on record that she had fallen out with the governor of her native Akwa Ibiom State and have been having a relentless war for political turf with the governor? So who knows whether she was sacrificed to Ekpe cult or even Alusi-Okija as an offal; afterall African science is still very much alive and portent. May her soul rest in peace.
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