Bosun Oredola, the wealthy big boy behind Globalbridge Projects Limited is back to the big time after finding mercy in the magnanimity of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode. And he is living it up real good, forgetting perhaps that a few months back, his marriage to Olayinka – a renowned pharmacist and founder of Megacare Group, tottered precariously on the brink of collapse.
Yinka and Bosun were divorcees who met and gave marriage a second chance. With a stately home in Banana Island, the Oredolas – hip and fun-loving and love living life to the hilt – were the envy of other couples. Shortly after they got married, Yinka introduced Bosun to former Minister of Petroleum, the embattled Diezani Allison-Madueke who pushed a lot of deals their way.
They came into a different kind of wealth, buying properties in choice areas – notably two apartments at Tango Towers, Bourdillon, Ikoyi – and jetting round the world. It was a good time for the couple. With Diezani’s ouster from power, the Oredolas wealth also plummeted. Before long, the hitherto loving couple turned their home into a theatre of war; it was one day, one crisis bordering on the sharp drop in their income.
In the midst of the crises, Yinka was still reaching out to her friends in high places to see if something could be passed down to her husband. Nothing came forth. So bad did relations between the couple degenerate that their pastor, Paul Adefarasin of the House on the Rock Church, had to wade in.
A while later, Bosun got the Lagos State contract worth over N2billion to build ultra modern service centres for the new buses that would ply Lagos roads under the revolutionary transport scheme of the state government. Bosun was automatically pirouetted back to the big time. The contract came at a very good time as his home was already on fire. The love returned between the warring couple and seeing them, one would hardly believe they ever raised a voice against each other.
Five months from now, Governor Ambode would cease to be the Governor of Lagos State. Now, Bosun is being buffeted with questions everywhere he turns these days as those who know about the deal he got with the state government are asking whether he would be able to complete it before Ambode leaves.
And the questions are justified given Bosun’s return to his days of profligacy even though it was only a part payment he got and the job had not really got off the ground. What got his associates worried was the recent lavish birthday he threw to celebrate his mum’s 70th birthday. He had the first leg in Dubai where he ferried friends and relatives to.
The second leg was a total shutdown of Glover Road, Ikoyi, last weekend. Expensive champagnes and cognacs flowed like a rivulet. If there was any doubt that he had returned to the big time, Bosun used the party to shut the doubts down permanently. But posers are being raised by concerned associates that for somebody who only got a part payment for the job, would he have enough to deploy for the completion of the project?
