Ololade Adeyanju/
Wedding plans between the families of former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Sir Kessington Adebutu aka Baba Ijebu ran into a hitch today with a suit filed at an Ikeja High Court, in Lagos to stop the ceremony.
The May 11 date set for the wedding bells to chime is a wrong time, says the ex-President’s wife, Mrs Taiwo Obasanjo, who filed the suit to stop the wedding of her son, Olujonwo Obasanjo, as planned.
Ex-President Obasanjo and the father of the bride, Sir Adebutu, who is the promoter of Premier Lotto known as ‘Baba Ijebu’, are respondents in the suit.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Justice Lateefat Okunnu has fixed April 10 for hearing of the suit marked ID/262FPM/2017.
Mrs Obasanjo, who is the twin sister of Chief Kenny Martins, the former Coordinator of the Police Equipment Fund, is seeking a postponement of the wedding of Olujonwo to Tope Adebutu scheduled for May 11 and May 12.
She wants the wedding to be fixed for a date after June 1.
Olujonwo and Tope had an elaborate introduction on December 17, 2016 that was celebrated on social media with photographs of the event.
Obasanjo, among others, is seeking a court declaration that as the mother of the groom, she has the rights to take part in the deliberations, decisions and activities leading to the forthcoming ceremony.
According to her, wedding invitations have been sent out and she has been excluded from the preparations for the ceremonies.
She said that she also received prophesies and warnings from men of God to the effect that Olujonwo, who turns 34 on June 1, should not do or be involved in any elaborate celebration before his birthday.
The woman wants the court to compel Adebutu and Obasanjo to shift the wedding to a date after June 1 after she had appealed to Adebutu and Mrs Rosemary Dacosta, the mother of the bride, Tope Adebutu, the bride-to-be as well as Chief Kenny Martins.
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Rubbish!!! Why must you stop your son’s wedding simply because of one ridiculous prophecy? No child would exclude a responsible mother from the planning of his wedding, the action before and after simply says a lot about the groom’s mother. I pray she won’t be the one truncating a day meant to be one of the boy’s happiest moment on earth due to pride.