One
does not know whether to call this news a bundle of joy for Ogun State
top politician and father of Nigeria’s erstwhile speaker of Federal
House of Representatives, Chief S. O. Alani Bankole, the Oluwo of Iporo
Ake and Seriki Jagunmolu of Egbaland.
The
very powerful politician, was said to have been blessed weeks past by
two new babies from two different women. The big story which is now
rocking the Rock City with intensity, is already making many to wonder
what the goatee-politician of note is still having to do with
child-rearing, let alone fathering two within one week from different
women and at a very advanced age of over 70 years.
According
to the hot gist, Chief Alani Bankole’s last but now not the least known
wife, a fair-skinned lady, known as Bola (nee Ewebiyi), was said to
have delivered a baby girl in an Abeokuta private hospital few weeks
ago. The 26 year-old Bola, whom the unrepentant polygamist politician,
Alani Bankole legally married about a year ago, is a graduate of Olabisi
Onabanjo University, OOU, Ago-Iwoye, with a B.Sc (Bus Admin), and is
allegedly said to be the apple of Alani Bankole’s eyes, courtesy her
fair-skin, beauty and young blood.
The
baby we gathered has since been named Ganiyat according to Islamic
tradition, just as a big party is under way come this Wednesday, March
13, 2013 to celebrate the arrival of the new baby. But just as
gladdening as the news of Alani Bankole’s pretty young wife’s delivery
of a baby girl, a rather startling news and very amusing one at that,
trickled in that yet another woman, who hails from Ilaro in the Yewa
axis of Ogun State, said to be in her 40s, was said to have within the
same week, delivered a baby girl for the same Chief Bankole, who we
gathered, was not befuddled in any way at the ‘supposed’ good news.
With
these two new additions to Alani Bankole’s harem, the number of
children he may be fathering now could be lost while counting, but as at
the last count, the number of his children was put at 26. The Ilaro
woman already has a 10-year-old boy from a previous marriage.
Meanwhile,
the latter of the two new mothers of Alani Bankole’s babies, Bola is
said to be so elated at her bundle of joy as she is leaving no stone
unturned to throw a big naming ceremony-cum-party for her daughter
Ganiyat Bankole, come March 13, when the baby will be clocking the
traditional 41 days, according to Yoruba and probably Islamic practice.
We
can tell you for free that Bola actually had an elaborate and
well-advertised and publicized introduction/engagement ceremony with the
much older Alani Bankole at her parents’ Ewebiyi residence, sometime in
November, 2012; an event which had prominent and top family members,
friends and associates of Alani Bankole in attendance. As for the other
woman, who also gave birth to a baby girl for Chief Alani Bankole, much
is not known about her, as the chief has over time managed to code his
relationship with the 40 something years old woman.
The
news of the baby’s arrival may however have been too much to shield or
conceal, and it’s just got to be told. We hear the baby girl had also
been named, but not too elaborate as that of Bola. Feelers from the
Bankole’s household are that many are still in shock as to the motive of
the politician on still having more wives at his age. According to
sources, those already bearing his name have been left to carry their
cross without recourse to him.
Source: Sahara Reporters
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