Bola Afolabi
Shade, wife of Lagos-based billionaire, Rasaq Okoya, has revisited the dramatic way he approached her when they first met.
She was just a 22-year-old lady when they got married while he was 60.
The way the marriage has worked out durably and lovingly has made their union a reference point when discussing couples with age differences.
Another one close to theirs is that of Nollywood actress, Regina Daniels, and her far older politician husband, Ned Nwoko.
In an interview on ‘Channels Television’, Shade says about the 25-year-old marriage: “When I met my husband, it was not a typical kind of meeting. I met him for a different purpose entirely, it was more work related.
“Looking back now, I know that my husband had his own mission and purpose then. We met casually, he saw me and he was just all about ‘I will like to see you again’ and I saw him the next time and it was just straight to the point then.
“He said ‘I would like to marry you’ which to me was too soon and too sudden because I wasn’t expecting anything like that. It was later on I got to know that he actually wanted a wife immediately.
“I didn’t tell any of my family members. My husband actually made that move himself. When he met me the first time, I knew he liked me but I wasn’t too sure.
“You can understand from his own point of view that he has to be plain and honest, he doesn’t want to play around. I didn’t even know what to say, I didn’t even reply him but right there, I knew I wasn’t going to see him again.
“During that same visit, he was with his friends. They usually hanged out together and one of them just took an interest and said he knew me very well, and along the line, he realised he knew my mum and my grandmother. So, later, I got to know that the man in question was an uncle,” she said.
