Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, several Nigerian governors and political bigwigs, including the 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso, were among the guests, on Saturday, at the wedding of the son of Mohammed Adoke, a former Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation.
Mr Adoke’s son, Faisal, married Amira Sayyu-Dantata at a grand ceremony held at the late Alhassan Dantata’s mosque located in the Koki Quarters of the Kano metropolis.
A former Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, formally received the bride on behalf of the groom’s family.
The guests include the Governors of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun, and his Nasarawa and Osun counterparts, Abdullahi Sule and Ademola Adeleke respectively, and the host governor, Abba Yusuf of Kano State.
Other dignitaries at the event include a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Oladimeji Bankole; former governor of Gombe State, Hassan Dankwanbo; the Speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly, Jibrin Falgore; the Secretary to the Government of Kano State, Umar Ibrahim; Farouk Aliyu, a former Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Ibadan businessman and publisher of The Street Journal Newspaper as well as National Chairman of Association of Media Practitioners Online in Nigeria (AMPON), Mogaji Wole Arisekola, and many business leaders from across the country.
