My wife and I commiserate with “Mama” Mrs. Olabisi Akindele; with “Mama Iyabo”, Mrs.
Atema Akindele; the children of the illustrious departed Sir Olabode “Bode” Akindele, Parakoyi Ibadan; and all the members of the larger Akindele family, on this unhappy occasion of his transition.
“How many children have you?”, I asked casually as we sat together in the magnum banquet hall at his Ibadan residence during that year’s annual dinner which he hosted after the Christmas Carol service held in his estate. I must have attended not less than three such dinners in the past. Chief was a contemporary of my late maternal brother, Chief Olubunmi Aboderin, the founding chairman of Punch Nigeria Limited who died in 1984 at the age of 49, and it was only after his death that I found out that both of them had had a business relationship at some point but that relationship did not survive him.
Anyone who knew him well would have known that he enjoyed his money. He ate full meals and, whenever you visited him, you both ate like kings. His knowledge of European wines, which he drank at practically every meal, except perhaps at breakfast, was exceptional. By the time I knew him, he no longer wore Western dress in Nigeria; in any case, l never saw him wear one.
As they moved to depart, my wife and I together with the married couple saw them to the lift and waved them goodbye.On June 2, his 87th birthday, I phoned to congratulate and wish him many more years.
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