Penultimate weekend, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, the former Governor of
Ogun State had his 60th Birthday at the Oriental Hotel in Lagos and it
was a big party that had all the trappings of the society milieu. At the
party and for the 1st time, Otunba Gbenga Daniel stepped out with his
children accompanied by their mother, Yeye Olufunke Daniel.
Amongst his 5 children who graced the occasion were his first
born, Rotimi, Adebola, a set of twin (Taiwo and Kehinde) and
Oluwamayowa. Accosting Kehinde, the only daughter of the former Governor
was a pleasant one and even when it looked as if she was not going to
talk about her father, she took out time to talk about the man whom she
termed a “quiet and prudent father”. She revealed many of her father’s
side that many people don’t know.
She told City People thus ‘’I feel very happy and grateful to God for allowing my
daddy to reach 6 milestones of his life. I wish him long life and
prosperity, many more years of success, greater things to come and in
all I wish him well. She shared her growing up days and also life as
governors daughter, for me life was very good, I had a very good growing
up years, I had a very good childhood. Being a governors daughter
never rubbed me off my private life, no it never did, even though some
people tried to rub me off that but I never let it happen.
I just take
people for what they are, I relate to them normally and treat them the
way they treat me, it has not changed me and never will. I feel safe, I
don’t feel
insecure with all the security details, It has become a
norm. On some of her father’s traits she took after, “yes I am very
prudent and also very intelligent which I took from my father, you don’t
just spend anyhow, my father preaches prudency and I am very modest and
hardworking as well which were all my fathers character”. Not leaving
her mum behind, she says, Yes my mother is very beautiful in and out,
she is the rock of our house, she holds everything together, my dad and
we the children. Without her, we wouldn’t have gotten this far let’s
just say, she is very caring, she has a big heart and always put
everybody before herself no matter the circumstance. Many people also
don’t know my father is very quiet and very private, people might think
because they are in the public eye that they are very public but No, my
father is the quiet type, it is just that politics has made him to be a
public person.
About her educational background, I attended Christ the Cornerstone
International School ,Ikeja then also I attended Atlantic hall for a
year, I graduated from the University of Tottenham and I am currently
doing my ACCA now’’.
OGD’s marriage which produced 5 children, has Rotimi as the
first son who is 30 years old, Adebola is the 2nd born and he is 24,
a set of twin, Taiwo ,a boy and Kehinde, a girl, age 23
and the last born is Olumayowa who is in his teens, 17 years precisely.