Oshiomole: I'm Happy to remarry again

Apart from the superlative media coverage, glamour and the vastly dignified personalities which coloured the high profile wedding, between 63 year old, Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomole, and an amazingly young Lara Forte from Cape Verde Island,

now Mrs. Oshiomole, there is something more captivating about their nuptials and it is the manner at which ‘His- Excellency’ dazed his public as a newly rejuvenated governor, who is as fit as ever, even in the affairs of running the race of love.

The unconventionality of Oshimole’s relationship with his newly wedded wife perfectly reflects my stance on love as an affection which can only be best defined by the actors confined in the warmth of the feeling.

From the third-party point of view, many of us have attempted to decipher what love is, judging on our own personal experiences or sometimes based on the commonest accounts on love tales told in our given society – An approach which can be very misleading, considering that ‘love’ as a feeling, can’t be scientifically exposed to everyone under the same condition, so one should on this premise expect no potent formula to loving someone.

Describing his own truest feeling for Lara, Oshiomhole said: “She is very humble; she appreciates the nature of my job and life that I return home late, sometimes 3am. She understands my weaknesses; she is more or less the mother of the house, the one that has accepted to be the mother of my children.

“I am happy that all my children are at home with her and accept her as their mother even though she is not old enough to be their mother. She has accepted to fill that gap” he explained.

As simple as the reasons cited by the governor for loving his wife may sound, it is a huge gap which can only be filled by someone special. Every lady can’t fill into every man’s desire; it takes only two mutually consenting adults to seal a union.

Unfortunately, the account of the bride which dominated the social media yesterday was filled with speculations, rumors and malicious statements from the third party point of views of those who raise the following questions: Is she, Lara not too beautiful and young a lady for Oshiomole? Is she after the money? Could their love be real?

Notwithstanding the forgoing outrage that trailed the glamorous wedding, Lara’s pedigree as a lady deflated all the questions raised by critics. She is obviously from a well to do family and her career is equally overwhelming. Her parents flew in from their Netherlands home to celebrate their daughter, a top model and lawyer by profession.

Besides, it is a known fact that a woman could see an older man as more appealing, especially when one considers their nature-being more mature and stable when compared to their younger counterparts. She may also think an older man suites her because she wants to be cared for in a particular style and she deserves the right to such taste.

In the most informal tone, highly revered social media commentator, Prof. Pius Adesanmi captured a whole lots of the surrounds of the so many attacks rained on the novel couple as an outburst of jealousy.

“If you are a Naija bobo screaming anger over this matter, I suspect it is because you no hold pay to attract that kain fine babe.I can sympathize with you if that is your problem. If you are a babe in Naija today screaming and tearing at Oshio Baba over his marriage to “that foreigner”, I’ll take the fifth over why I think you are so mad.” – Pius Adesanmi

Most importantly, if one finds all the right feelings (affections, satisfactions, compatibility, cravings etc) in ones partner, age will not matter. If two people are fortunate enough to find each other, it is generally immaterial at which point in life they do so. When it comes to love, age is just a number.

Age is not a limit to love