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September 10, 2025 • Headline
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By ‘Dotun Akintomide
It was an epicentre of allure inside Eko Hotel and Suites, Lagos on Saturday, October 28 as the Senate President, Bukola Saraki’s first daughter, Oluwatosin had a traditional wedding engagement ceremony which had in attendance the creme de la crème of the Nigerian society and elsewhere.
Oluwatosin got wedded to her heart-throb, Adeniyi Olatunde Olukoya, the son of Omooba Tokunbo Olusanya.
The wedding’s introduction ceremony of Oluwatosin had already took place in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital the previous Saturday.
25-year-old Oluwatosin is the first of the four children of the Senate President, His Excellency, Dr. Olubukola Saraki and his wife, Her Excellency Oluwatoyin Ojora Saraki.
The grand wedding celebration between Oluwatosin and Olatunde Olukoya will hold December 7th, 2017 at Royal Hall, Dunes Centre Abuja.
The new couple, Mr and Mrs Olatunde & Oluwatosin Olukoya cutting their wedding cakeThe New couple(L-R) Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo; Bride’s mother, Mrs Toyin Ojora Saraki; Mrs. Dolapo Osinbajo and Bride’s father and President of the Nigerian Senate, Dr. Olubukola SarakiThe bride, Oluwatosin with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and wife DolapoGroom’s father Omoba Adebola Olukoya and Olori Olatokunbo, groom’s motherVice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (M) with the the bride’s father, President of the Nigerian Senate, Dr. Olubukola Saraki (R) and Minister of Budget and National Planning, Sen. Udo Udoma (L)The couple, Bride’s father (M) and the OsinbajosAPC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie Oyegun with Former Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka AnyaokuFormer Senate President, Ken Nnamani with Chief Olusegun Osoba, former Ogun state GovernorFormer President Olusegun Obasanjo, Bride’s father, Dr. Bukola Saraki and Prof. OsinbajoL-R) APC Chieftain, Chief Bisi Akande; APC National leader and former Lagos State Governor, Chief Bola Tinubu and his wife Sen. Olufemi TinubuFrom left: Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, Alh. Aliko Dangote and Alh. Isa Ismail Funtua.
