Businesswoman Folasade Omotade-Odumosu Remembers Late Husband

An American children’s author, political cartoonist, illustrator and poet once said: “Sometimes, you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.”

Everyone remembers their first love, and it is only natural to feel sentimental when thinking about them. Such was the feeling in the heart of Mrs Folasade Omotade-Odumosu for her late husband, Ayodeji Olaseni Omotade.

On that faithful Saturday, October 22, 2005, Omotade who was then the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Industries and Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, was leaving Lagos for Abuja. He never envisaged that it would be his last flight. The Bellview flight he boarded that day had crashed at Lisa village in Ogun State shortly after taking off.

To say Folasade was distraught and devastated is, to put it mildly. She was inconsolable, as her world seemed to have crashed before her eyes.

Sixteen years later, the billionaire businesswoman, who is now married to the Lagos Police Commissioner, Hakeem Odumosu, has not hidden the fact that her late hubby is still indeed a part of her memories.

Consequently, on October 22, 2021, she took to social media to pen beautiful words in memory of her late husband, writing “My late husband, my closest friend and confidant. Thank you for watching over our children from heaven, may your soul know everlasting peace.

“Happy birthday, My husband. I miss you more and more every day. Today, you are 70. I wish you were alive to see your children and celebrate with us, but God chooses the time we are ready to die and for you, it was 16 years ago. We wish you a happy birthday wherever you are and accept our best wishes.”
The couple had three children.