1. She is Adenike Adeleke
2. She clocked 48 years in February.
Nike Adeleke
3. She is a graduate of Science Technology.
4. She was born of an affluent father, Chief Ahmed Omidina, who was an astute cocoa merchant.
5. Her mother is from Delta State.
6 She was born and bred in Oshogbo.
7. She owns a fabric shop in Abuja, Crystal Fabrics.
8. She met her husband, the late Adeleke aka Serubawon in 1991. This
was after the deceased lost his first wife who died in an auto crash in
Lagos
She recalled: “I met him in 1991, when I was a 21-year-old. Though I
had met him earlier in 1987, there was nothing happening between us. By
the time he just came back from the United States of America, I was in
Oshogbo and met him at a friend’s place. Then, it was one of these
festive periods and he saw me and asked me out. But I fled. I was afraid
that he was older than me! But he did not give up and gradually, I was
attracted to his good nature and by 2000, we got married.”
9. Of her late husband, she said, “I am very lucky to have married a
man, who is kind, generous, a peoples’ man and who identifies with
whatever challenges are in your life.”
10. Her business started from her sitting room but, “the customers
were getting too much and there were times my husband would be in the
living-room and some customers would be buying and bargaining. It was
getting too uncomfortable for us and my husband requested that I got a
shop, which I did.”
Source: Kemi Ashefon