- SADE OKOYA Tells City People
You are the Chief host of today’s Event, why did you throw this party for your husband’s best friend?
Justice retired Oguntade and his wife are wonderful persons. He has been a good friend of my husband for decades. They have been together for over 40 years.
There are stories that bind them together. This is just a normal thing we have to do for one of our own.
We have to play host to him on his appointment as the High Commissioner to United Kingdom. It is an honour well deserved from the President to him. I am sure he would make an impact considering where he is coming from.
Let’s talk about the friendship between your husband and Justice Oguntade, what have you learnt from it?
I have learnt generousity in friendship. They are both very dear to each other.
You and Mrs. Modupe seem to be very close too?
(Cuts-in) Yes, and we pray that we will both be together for eternity insha.
Allah. When friendship is meant to be, Aunty Dupe and I got along so well. It is meant to be. I love and respect her much.
The bond between our husband spreads to us, their wives.
We are really very close and I pray that God should continue to be with us. We shouldn’t witness any test of time.
You are very stylish, what is a style to you?
I don’t know, I love to look good. Though, I don’t have time to do it all the time, but when occasion calls for it, I love to look good and be happy.
You seem to love black a lot?
No, I think I love white more but for dinner, I always love to wear what suits the theme of the event. Tonight, I decided to wear black because it is the theme of the event.
You have been married for 19 years, how does it make you feel that you are in it and still counting?
I give God the glory. Just as children, marriage is not about having a special power. The success of any marriage lies in the fact that I am married to a good man. My marriage success is about God. I am thankful to Him. As you said, it going to be 19 years soon.
What has sustained Dr. Sade Okoya?
My family has sustained me. Most especially my husband. I want him to be happy and the fact that what he has going on in Eleganza is what he lives for. The passion and drive that my husband has for the manufacturing industries in Nigeria. I just love to make my husband happy in all ways. I love my job. I think God did a total package for me. Loving your job and marriage. I thank my God for that. It is not by my doing. Loving my husband and my job has kept me going.
You are a lover of precious stones, how did your love for jewelry start?
Do I love Jewellery? I don’t know, I just love good things. I love everything good.
What is that thing that people don’t know about Dr. Sade Okoya?
Perhaps, many don’t know that despite being fashionable, I am a Laywoman when I get to the factory. When I go out, people see me as a celebrity. They need to see me when I am at the factory. You know, sometimes in life, we don’t get to choose what we want to be. Though, I am not complaining. I love what I am doing and that alone is fulfilling for me. Some people will ask me, why do you manufacture? Why don’t you do other things that are less stressful? But I tell them, I love what I am doing and it makes my husband happy. This is me and it’s my priority.
What is the secret of a successful woman?
I think for anybody to be successful, one needs to be focused. You have to be determined. Being focused and being an achiever do not mean that you have any special thing you are doing that makes you different from others.
Some people work hard but have nothing to show for it. Why this?
That is why you must appreciate God for his mercy on you. I give God the glory and adoration. I have a good home and my family is a closely knitted one. I have a successful business and a good home. It is not because I was born in a special way. So, we should also learn to appreciate God. Then humility has also worked for me. If you want to be successful, you must be humble. You must also be very prayerful. Prayer is the key to anything we do in life.
You just mentioned humility, why do you always kneel down for people despite that you are a wife of a rich man?
You can’t say because your husband is rich and you will now wear it as a badge.
My upbringing helps me much. I don’t see any big deal in it. Though, kneeling down is a Yoruba thing, but I am used to it. I also notice that people like me, and I must reciprocate the good gesture that many big wigs see in me. I am not special.
They only like me because they like my husband because he is a good man. It not a self appraisal, If I send text in a day, people will fly in here. I am just honoured to be surrounded by wonderful people and they just take me for who I am. I thank God for that.
What has sustained you?
It is God that has brought me this far. It is God, who has sustained me.
We were here one day for an event and we learned you were fasting, do you do that to keep in shape?
No, fasting works for me. I don’t believe in any other thing than fasting and prayer. God is my pillar. Some people think you need to have a Special person to pray for you, but the question is, if that person is capable, he should have done it for himself.
This is what sustained me. I am 18 years plus in my marriage already, but people think I am just married for 5 years. I will be here Insha Allah till my old age Insha Allah. Fasting for me is what I use to communicate with God. It may amaze you that I fast Monday to Friday except when I am not forbidden to fast as a lady. It is a normal thing for me. It is the only way 1 communicate with my God.
How many minutes do you spend to look this good?
Just one hour. I have many staffers here, who get things done for me.
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