Adunni Bankole Sleeps

by Lakan

Chief ( Mrs ) Adunni Omotayo Bankole , popular society
matriarch, is dead. The wife of Ogun State popular
politician, Chief Olayiwola Alani Bankole , and step
mother of the former Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Hon . Dimeji Saburi Bankole , reportedly
died at 6: 05am on Saturday, at her mother ’ s residence
in Maryland, Lagos State , after a protracted battle with
a heart -related illness. She died , just few hours before
the commencement of the wedding ceremony of her her
second daughter , Mopelola Zeenat , barely three months
to her 56th birthday ( March 29) . During Mopelola’ s
Introduction ceremony, Bankole had been sick for over a
month before her death came calling . So severe was the
ailment that she could not be part of the preparation for
the wedding ceremony. It was gathered that Bankole
was rushed to the hospital last week , and had been in a
coma for the last five days . Three years ago, precisely in
September 2011 , the affable society matriarch suffered a
massive heart attack and was rushed to the Emergency
Ward of the Lagos State UniversityTeaching Hospital ,
Ikeja ( Lasuth ) . She was revived after being put under
watch closely monitored for several hours in the
Lasuth ’ s Intensive Care Unit. of LASUTH . The wedding
between Mopelola and her fiancé , Sharafadeen
Oluwafemi Jatto , was held today at The Events Centre ,
Agidingbi , Ikeja , Lagos. Mopelola, a graduate of the
University of Lagos , is a senior staff at Skye Bank in
Abuja , while her husband , Olufemi works at First Bank,
Abuja . In attendance at the wedding was her step -son,
a former Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Dimeji Bankole and his father, Chief Alani Bankole, and
the bride ’ s grandmother . Shortly after the traditional
wedding , the bride ’ s father , Chief Alani Bankole went
round to thank guests and quietly took his leave
accompanied to his car by Dimeji , who returned to the
wedding hall for the reception . Shocked by the news,
some friends of the late society matriarch, were in
pensive mood . Fondly called Iyalode or Chief Mrs by her
teeming admirers and loved ones , Bankole, a foremost
businesswoman with a chain of stores , such as Sublime
Group , formerly on Opebi Street , and later, Ogba Retail
market, Ikeja , Lagos, hailed from Owu , Ogun State . She
married a First Republic politician , Chief Alani Bankole,
the Oluwo Iporo and Asipa of Egbaland and the father of
Dimeji Bankole . She is blessed with four children –
Toyin, Mopelola, Layiwola Jnr and Adesola, and a
grandson, Sultan . The first of her parents ’ children ,
Bankole is survived by her 79- year old mother and
many siblings .