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How SALAMA Dazzled At His Chieftaincy Ceremony
It’s no longer news that Senator Teslim Folarin has unveiled his new wife. It has also become a stale gist that the unveiling occurred during his recent elevation ceremony from Aare Alaasa Olubadan of Ibadanland to Agbaakin Olubadan of Ibadanland. The Olubadan of Ibadanland, His Imperial Majesty Oba Rasidi Adewolu Ladoja, Arusa I, on Friday, November 21, promoted seven senior chiefs in the Olubadan chieftaincy line.
The main gist, however, was the curiosity that followed the iconic outing, as the identity of the new woman in the Ibadan chief’s life could not be firmly established.
This is because love affair was kept out of the public eye, so much so that many people don’t know the new woman’s name, her tribe, or nationality. All they could speculate was that she doesn’t look Nigerian.
But we can tell you for free that Folarin’s new love is a fair and astonishingly beautiful Moroccan woman called Salamat. She is a fair and astonishingly beautiful woman with an average height.
She was sighted at the elevation ceremony, royally dressed in ‘iro and buba’ made of white lace. A blue ‘gele and ipele’ (headgear and shoulder sash) completed her attire. She sat beside her husband, who wore a blue agbada and a black traditional cap, both of them radiating smiles.
This came three years after Folarin, a former Senate Leader and the 2023 governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, lost his wife Angela to the cold hands of death.
Angela, a bold and beautiful lawyer and socialite par excellence, died on January 28, 2022, in the UK at 48.
Folarin and Angela were an excellent couple until death separated them. In fact, Angela, apart from managing the home front, was a strong pillar for her husband. She was a mother and loving wife. She was so accustomed to Ibadan that it was difficult to distinguish whether she was a Yoruba woman or not, even though she was indeed from Delta State.
She ran an NGO called The Sidikatu Abebi Foundation, through which many lives were positively touched and uplifted, particularly orphans and people living with HIV in Oyo State.
She was the ‘iron lady’ and a frontrunner of her husband’s Teslim Kolawole Folarin (TKF) political movement. She was also, like her husband, a grassroots mobilizer in all ramifications.
All these and many more are the reasons why her death has remained a great loss to her husband, and also why her indelible legacy was celebrated specially during her posthumous 50th birthday last year.
However, now that Folarin has at last found a new love, the expectation is for her to fill the huge vacuum occasioned by Angela’s death.
-Dare Adeniran
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