This oil marketer is one of the many children of the recently deceased Oyo State-born billionaire businessman, Aare Arisekola-Alao. Abdullahi shot to fame when his company was charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission with allegedly playing a role in the N1.1bn fuel subsidy fraud.
The businessman, who is still recuperating from the shock of losing his father two weeks ago, had to contend with another loss when his mother, Alhaja Doyin Alao-Arisekola, died in an auto crash last Tuesday.
The deceased, who bore the late Arisekola-Alao two children— Abdullahi and Fatimah—was a successful textile merchant on Lagos Island.
Contrary to widespread belief, the deceased, who was interred at her son’s house in Ibadan, was not the late Arisekola-Alao’s eldest wife but the third.
Her marriage to Arisekola crashed many years ago after which she married an Ikorodu-born socialite, Oladipupo Olorunsogo Anifowoshe, a.k.a, Aye of Africa, whom she also parted ways with in 1995. The union did not produce any child.