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Friday, March 23, 2018

Funke Awolowo And Dolapo Osinbajo- A Tale Of Two Awolowo Grand Daughters

Funke Awolowo is the only daughter of her father, Olusegun Awolowo who died tragically at the age of 24 in 1963. Dolapo Osinbajo is the only daughter of her mother, Ayodele Soyode who died in 2011.





Both women are granddaughters of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo and his jewel of inestimable value, Yeye Oodua Hid Awolowo. The Awolowos are famous, wealthy and well connected that one would assume that any child born into this illustrious family would have a secured future in every sphere of life.

While Dolapo has enjoyed all the privileges, perks and trappings of being an Awolowo grandchild, the same cannot be said of her older cousin, Funke. The genesis of how their lives have turned out so differently lies at the bosom of their formidable grandmother, Yeye Hid. She bestowed and lavished boundless grace and favour on Dolapo.

Yeye Hid became a grandmother for the first time when Funke was born some days before her 47th birthday. As a loving wife and mother that she was, she must have relished becoming a grandmother. Whatever grandmotherly joy and pride she had, was shattered when her first son, Olusegun, Funke’s father died when she was eight months old.

In 1967, the Awolowos organised the most lavish wedding of the decade for their second daughter, Ayodele. The bride had 90 bridesmaids. Dolapo was born three months after the wedding and her grandmother was in London as soon as she was informed of her birth, to felicitate with her daughter and welcome her sixth grandchild.

Dolapo grew up to study law at the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye. She got married when she was 22 on her grandmother’s 74th birthday. Funke graduated from the University of Wolverhampton with a B.A(Hons) when she was 26. At 55, she is unmarried and the mother of two sons.

Dolapo is happily married and a mother of three. Last weekend, her first daughter got married to the third son of the billionaire oil mogul, Bola Shagaya.

Yeye Hid is a woman of great hospitality and generosity who accommodated the excesses and weaknesses of her younger son and first grandson but that grace was never extended to Funke.


In 2002,Funke instituted a court case against her grandmother and others out of frustration as she did not know what else to do or who would speak up for her. She was prevailed upon to withdraw the case, apologise to her grandmother, uncle and aunts. She apologised as advised but her situation did not change.


In 2011, Mr Sam Omatseye wrote one of the most devastating articles about the Awolowos in the Nation, a newspaper largely owned by the Asiwaju. To say that Yeye Hid was angry was an understatement. She was enraged and made her feelings about the article public. In private, curses were flying all over the place like drones, the Awoists were up in arms and many alleged that Mr Omatseye was doing the Asiwaju’s dirty work.


There are no permanent friends or foes in politics. The same Asiwaju who was a pariah among the Awoists in 2011 would be instrumental to the emergence of Dolapo’s husband, Prof Yemi Osinbajo as the running mate to General Buhari’s presidential candidature in 2015.


Yeye Hid blessed and supported Dolapo’s husband’s political ambitions and he became the Vice President after the 2015 elections. As the wife of the Vice President, Dolapo became the second lady of the country.


To be the only daughter of your rich, famous and powerful grandmother’s favourite child is one of life’s ultimate blessings. To lose your golden father before your first birthday and then blacklisted by your family is one of life’s greatest injustices. These circumstances have shaped both women’s lives.

When Yeye Hid transitioned to greater glory, Funke released her grandmother’s last public photograph affirming that they have finally resolved their differences.


Dolapo has set up a pet project, Project Ayodele under the auspices of the Ayodele Foundation, a foundation established with her brothers to immortalise the memory of their late mother. The project is making a significant impact in the lives of women and youths across the country associated with it.


Funke is intelligent and educated to be a part of her family’s philanthropic, political and business interests if the reconciliation with her grandmother was genuine. Yeye hid’s daughters who are God fearing and advocates of social justice would carry out the last wishes of their venerable mother in regards to their niece.



Dolapo would become a grandmother rather sooner than later, she would be a fantastic and wonderful grandmother. A granny, any grandchild of hers would be delighted and blessed to have as a grandparent as she would treat all her grandchildren equally and fairly because it is the right thing to do in the sight of God and man.


Who knows what the future holds for Funke, one can only hope that her latter years are happier and more fulfilling than her younger years. No one would doubt that Dolapo would still be in a celebratory mood as par the success of her gorgeous daughter’s wedding. As for Funke, happy as she would be for her younger cousin and her good fortune in life, she would only be human to hope that one day too, the family would gather to celebrate with her, her wedding, a son’s wedding, a landmark birthday celebration or something else.


Whatever that celebration would be and whenever it would happen, hopefully, her paternal relations ,the Segun-Awolowos, Oyedirans, Oluwole-Awolowos, Soyodes and Dosunmus would rally round to rejoice with her to the delight of her grandparents who would look at each other in heaven and say ”we had a wonderful marriage and life but our greatest and everlasting legacy is a very much united family”. 

They will raise a glass to toast their Olufunke who would finally get to enjoy the honour and recognition of her special status, the first grandchild of Nigeria’s most phenomenal couple..

By Ola Abejide.

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    1. The Awolowos didn't want Funke because her mum was the house help impregnated by their 1st son (Segun's dad).

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    2. @anonymous is that so? Tell us more...

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    3. Lady T/ am worth more than a thousand dollars23 March 2018 at 11:55

      The sins of the father being visited on the child,
      Whether she was born by a prostitite or house help. She is still an Awolowo. And it is not her fault at all.

      I can bet the house help didn't have a choice in that matter. Well, whatever, Funke is still and will be an Awolowo whether she is recognized or not.


      Sad though...

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    4. The story confusing
      Funke who they didn't want schooled abroad .
      Dolapo they wanted schooled in Nigeria

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    5. Anon 12.52, as in eh. That part confused me.

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    6. All i wanted to see was Funke's picha
      But SDK whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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    7. Funke's mum lived in London till she died and Funke lived more in London than in Nigeria. Free school/grant things. Her mother was henlele. Had kids with different men prominent among who are Taiwo and Kehinde Majekodunmi/Taiwo Mayuku.

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    8. Her mum is dead? I had to go read do much about the family yesterday. Even Aba Folawiyo "was from Ghana and a tailor family who moved to Nigeria" wasn't to be seen with Segun Awolowo but luckily she got pregnant for Segun who unfortunately died before his "Segun" son was born.
      I think the Funke lady was just unfortunate, I feel for her cos it can really be depressing not to be acknowledged in such a big family.

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    9. Ha ha Funke mother was never a maid,She was born in London by a lady her father met while schooling,she’s not close to d Awolowo cos she came to Nigeria when she was 5years old so pls gather fact before you bring in fake stories

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  2. What about her mum? The way they treated her affected her in life,evil grandma

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    1. So it is the evil grandmother's fault Funke is not married and became a babymama.
      Do you know how many people their father died young, they were dejected and chased away by fathers family.
      Did that stop them from making a success of their life. Or that made them to open their legs and become babymama twice.
      My father died when I was very little also,and he was extremely wealthy. With even properties outside the country but left no will. my mum was repeatedly threatened, she was even almost shot one time by supposed armed robbers, which we suspected was my fathers brother. We left with just our clothes.
      We were raised alone by our mum, while the family and my dads first son by another woman took everything.
      My mum did her best, and sponsored us to the best schools and university. We didn't even get anyone from fathers side ask about our welfare.
      We thank God we are all doing well now. When the supposed first son and family have squandered everything away. He even recently died of cancer I heard.
      They shld stop dragging Dolapo's name this has nothing to do with her.
      Funke had an education abroad from university of Wolverhampton and still didn't make a success of her life and got entangled with unserious men that made her baby mama, how is that Dolapo's fault.

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    2. 12.07 you don't know how some issues in life can affect some people's lives psychological, mentally, physically, spiritually etc. Mind you the article said Funke's father died at 24 hence she had no father figure, her mother being a house wouldn't have had the mental strong will to raise her. Her being shipped abroad doesn't automatically guarantee all will be well. You talk about unserious men? The truth is most kids raised this way without the love of a father do have daddy issues and have the tendencies of finding love in wrong places, its both psychological and emotional. Thank God for your mum who had the mental stability to raise you same cannot be said of the Funke , her mum was just a househelp who apparently was no match for the Awolowos and must have been swept off the picture. Having no parental guide and the misfortune of a grand mother who loathed you for no reason but circunstances of your birth is enough recipe for disaster. Not everybody is that strong and resilient so show some empathy. Moreover she( Funke) made success of her education.

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    3. Anon 12.07 only in Nigeria is a woman's success measured by marriage. What if she chooses to have kids and not get married. Some of the women making waves abroad are not married, some are single mothers . Some no kids and no husband. The truth is the Awolowos did an injustice to Funke.

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    4. @anon 12:07 True!@your last paragraph. Funke had western education and that can be said to be an advantage over dolapo who went to nigerian university. Abi? So what is it naau?
      They forgot to add that dolapo has also been a Christian from a very young and has prayed her way to Gods will for her life. The grace of God upon her life isn’t just ‘luck’. Do you know the battles she fought too, being the grandchild of one of the greatest men in Nigerian history and probably not getting some perks (like schooling abroad)? Would the grand mother just avoid Funke without reason? Abeg they should shift.

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    5. Anon 13.40 it is the article than emphasised that dolapo is happily married while the funke is unmarried and has two kids
      If it's not an issue. Why raise that point. That part of the article doesn't even make sense.
      So its her suffering from the awolowi that caused her to be a single mother. Like single motherhood is a disease. How does that stop her from having a happy fulfilled life.

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    6. 12;07 u r not a human at alllll. Cos ur mother made something out of u? Ahhhhha women! Do u think some pple set out to b babe mama's ? And u have an education? Wow how devilish and judgemental u r.God bless u at anon 13;06...well explained

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    7. Anonymous 12:07,i dont agree with you at all. You have spoken without wisdom and immaturity.
      What is your family name so I will know how prominent you have become? I was born by a single mum of 5kids and I don't even want to tell you what we went through but God's name be praised, we've all grown with children and it could only have been God.
      This is Awolowo family we are talking about, this is Segun Awolowos first child. If they dint have issues with her or the mum: I can bet she would have had a political assignment. 100 % certain.
      I wouldn't say she's done well being a babymama but you don't know what neglect, depression does and leads people too. I'm sure the lady was looking for love at just any sight and would open her arms and legs at any man who shows her affection, she at some point must have seen herself as a failure.
      God will not let us have evil MILs " not saying HID was one" that will do anything to make sure the child of the DIL they don't like not turn out good in life.
      So was it the lady's fault sleeping with Segun Awolowo, why didn't he use condom at that time?
      Why visit the sin of a mum or the hatred of a mum on an innocent child.
      We women are so good at loving our daughters children over the sons children, then if they now hate the wife, the grandchildren are in trouble.
      Its not like HID wanted Abah Folawiyo around late Segun Folawiyo she only became lucky to have had a male child and because their son was dead before the birth of their grandchild they embraced him. For the Awolowos it was like, God bringing their son back to life.
      Don't come here posting comments if you don't have anything good to say, just thank God for your own and move on.

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  3. Whoever wrote this article is a bitter person, and I don't know the essence of this article. Both Funke and Dolapo chose their paths. Dolapo went to Olabisi Onabanjo Uni- a local school. Funke schooled in the UK. She had her privileges. Why are you trying to make it sound like their grandma arranged Dolapo's marriage to Osinbajo? Abegi. It is not her fault that she's famous, or married to a rich man who happens to be a VP.

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    1. Princess Scheherazade23 March 2018 at 12:34

      Thank you! What is the essence of this article?

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    2. Funke has a brother from the same father, Segun Awolowo that is doing well for himself. So, it has nothing to do with their father dying early. She chose to be a baby mama. She chose to not take advantage of being an Awolowo. Don't be bitter that Dolapo's daughter got married to a rich family.

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    3. I think j the article is trying to underscore the fact that the Awolowoa never claimed/claims Funke . They seems to to only acknowledge Segun Awolowo Jr as the first grand child. Truth is if Segun Awolowo Snr hadn't passed away at such a young age, they wouldn't have claimed Segun Jr. Either cos Yeye HID couldn't stand his mom...Hajia Abba Folawiyo . Mama HID hated all the girls Segun Snr frolicked with however Segun was just a spoilt entitled brat who slept around and whose reckless lifestyle cost his life. In stead of mama to be mad at Segun she took anger out on poor housemaid and abba. If Segun Snr were alive his own would be worse than tuface . Sleeping with everything like a rabid dog

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    4. Na she only accepted Segun Jnr because he's a male child. True HID disliked both women. Beg Abah, not literally beg. Money was the sweetener for Abah.

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  4. All this know it all grandma, it's their type we were talking about in that Emergency posts recently, those kain grandma that controls everybody.

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  5. The person that wrote this story is a very Foolish person...I hate family rivalry..it's never healthy..My mother and her sisters have been fighting for so long even before we were born,due to the mistake their mother made,by loving my mother's sister's than my mother..So,my mother grew up with this hate,though my grandma later realised her mistake,but it was too late,because she is old now...And till date they are still not in good terms...We as the grand children,we are not also in good terms..why? because we have also carried these misunderstanding our mothers had with each other,it's not reflecting on us..When ever we have family celebration,everybody on your own....It is sad to watch...So I will please beg all mother's to be careful and also all grandma,becareful how you treat your daughter's and grand daughters..Don't have a favorite,even if you do,don't let it be too obvious....it's not healthy for a family.

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  6. I dunno the essence for this article or what it contributes to the solution of the problems facing us as a nation. Who cares about their history.

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  7. What is the essence of this article?

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  8. What has HID got to do with her failed life.

    Oshinbanjo didn't win because he's Awoliwo inlaw

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  9. Once you become successful and renowned in anything, people begin to make all sorts of insinuations and throw darts at you. Maybe the grand ma was equally harsh on dolapo but dolapos attitude at handling such things was better, while Funke was probably at loggerheads with the woman. If dolapo wasn’t VPs wife would they write this baseless story? So Funke decided to remain unmarried because of her late father abi? Person wey school for UK decades ago had even more opportunities to make it big in whatever field she chose, cos it’s not like now that Nigerian has turned upside down.

    Abeg swerve! Everyone can see from dolapos attitude that she’s a virtuous woman. Case closed.

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    1. My love for you trippled

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    2. The person that wrote this is just a bitter soul.... Will you keep kwaeet

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  10. This writer just sitdown write rubbish.

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  11. What’s the point of this article now please? We Nigerians are just somehow men! Absolutely useless piece...why compare the 2 ladies?

    Everyone’s journey is different and we should embrace that. Life is a video not a snapshot so things will never always remain the same

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  12. At a point in life, we have to take full ownership and responsibility of our lives and stop giving our power away by blaming others. Funke's dad is the same dad the raised Segun her brother albeit to different mothers, has he got the same drama as Funke She chose her path.

    Like you said Stella, Prayer is free. Prayer and a commitment to change yields results. It is time people stop blaming others for who they are becoming.

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  13. Where was Papa Awolowo in all of Funke's life... was he too absent?!

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  14. Hmm make una go read late Awolowo will? He share give Segun as a son and as a grandson abeg d Funke nor b person? Segun n Dollop go Ago iwoye dem nor allow dem stay hostel coz dem b d better pikin n d grand parents wan see dem always. Why d Funke nor stay with them b4 she go university for abroad? Coz dem nor like am dem tell their first daughter to take am? The Awolowo nor try for d woman wen she sue dem she say from what d grandpa gave Segun wen b dem papa share she suppose get from inside but dem nor give am anything? D pple wen tell her to withdraw d case na to save the Awolowo face. Dem know say Wetin dem do bad? My question be say why you go like some grandkids pass other? The girl grow up in surrounding wey dey nor love am n dem dey show am

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    1. So wet in concern Dolapo for all the yabis wey you yab here?

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    2. Eyah
      So she grew up without family love. It is well with her. She's got the love of her sons now. They will show her unconditional love.

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  15. This article is an insult to our collective intelligence. We don't know the intricacies of this matter and we have no right to judge.

    The daughter of a house help schools abroad and we still get to hear pity stories? Come on.

    The Awolowos may have kept their distance for good reason. Since she schooled in the UK, we can deduce she was well taken care. Perhaps, her mother and grandmother never saw eye to eye.

    Perhaps, Funke wasn't brought to be an Awolowo by her mother. The probabilities are endless. And for someone to wade into a family matter they have no idea about is disingenuous and quite malicious.

    Funke has had a life better than most Nigerians abeg. This is a non-issue.

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  16. This is a useless article.
    Dolapo is a born again Christian and I guess that helped shape her life. I was even wondering within myself some days ago how she married Osinbajo who is a son of a 'no big name' considering the culture of rich marry rich, big name Marry big name. But this lady here Dolapo never put that as a yard stick to who she wants to marry, but followed her heart and probably prayed long and hard to make the decision, because Osinbajo was not a VP when he proposed and was not rich and famous then, but I guess her simplicity and Christianity informed her decision to marry a man that is not in her league and alas! He turned out to become a vice president decades later. So nobody should blame any body for their choices in life. I also observed that the Awolowos did not feature prominently at Dolapo's daughter's wedding or just my observation, because in my part of the country, the girl's aunt's will wear uniform and her cousin's too, but what do I know?

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  17. Madam Stella, you should delete this article.

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    1. Yes she should delete the post if it was not paid for. I don't see the essence asides the fact that it will breed bad blood between her and the VP/Awolowo family

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  18. Schooling abroad back in the day was not a big deal. You all seem to be making a big fuss about it. In actual fact many prominent people in Africa chose to study in universities in Nigeria rather than their European counterparts because of the good quality then. Not now that women use their body heat and men cash to buy their way through. Also this thing about leaving this and that for your generation is nonesense. teach them how to make a living not how to depend on family wealth. was it not Papa Awolowo that created his own legacy himself, if they are blue blooded they can individually do same. That's why most influential families end up with children that only know about waiting for inheritance. families like Otedola, Saraki, Igbinedion, Mine, Tejuosho, Agbamu, Sijuade, Sanusi, all pushed their children to be self made and not dependents.

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    1. Yeah right, na you know pass. Because they don’t shout doesn’t mean they don’t have their own. All the families you mentioned have serious inheritance issues serious ones. Do your investigations properly.And shut the fuck up on what you don’t know

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  19. Hmm, may we not be used as the sacrificial lamb in Jesus name. Amen. Being the 1st child in any family, you have to pray like your life depends on it, not to talk of coming from such a big family.
    Parents, please always pray for all your children. I am constantly using Ezekiel 18:1-4 for myself and my children. This lady called Funke should have challenged her birth and broken the spirit of rejection/hatred over her life, in not doing so, it probably affected her destiny. She should have moved closer to God, not taking her grandmother to court.
    I come from a wealthy background but still work very as I want to make something out of my life, but the harder I tried, the more difficult it was for me to have a breakthrough. I found myself still living off my father's wealth. I had to challenge my birth through the power of the Holy Spirit.
    I went to God in prayers and I had a dream where God revealed the root of the problem. My father.
    May we not suffer from what we do not know about or use our head to carry what we do not know about in Jesus name. Amen.

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  20. Who is calling Dolapo a virtuous woman? Dolapo is wicked evil and fake. A woman that will not let her husband's aide's even drink water from the kitchen of Ayida house? They have to drink from a dirty outside tap. Dolly lives only for instagram fakery of false simplicity, she's as fake as they come. Nobody that knows her likes her except pretenders like herself. She sank Funke's prospects with her lies.

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    1. You know Dolapo well. Fake humility.

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  21. I don't want to make political comment. All I know is that wherever we find ourselves, we should make the best use of our lives for the service of God and humanity.

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    1. The bible says, My people perish due to lack of knowledge. All the comments above on Dolapo, Funke and their grandparents are not completely true. Go and read this article "Years after dad’s death, they would say he had gone to England – Segun Awolowo Snr’s daughter, Funke, written in Punch newspaper by Taiwo Ojoye on 29 July 2018, and you will see Funkes positive attitude towards her grandparents, brother, cousins and uncles, and her celebrated upringing by her grandparents. She was not neglected, and today she claims to be a pastor of a church in Egbeda, Lagos. I'm not a spokesman for anyone. I just want people to make comments from an informed position. God bless you all.

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