OLIVE SULOLA ADEJOBI
At 94, she is the pillar behind a movement, a man of many firsts who took the gospel across Nigeria to Europe and America born in Iporo-Ake in Abeokuta, Reverend Mother Olive Sulola Adejobi, wife of the late Primate Emmanuel Owoade Adeleke Adejobi, of the Church of the Lord (Aladura). Even in death, 30 years after, she is ardent of her husband’s calling, purposeful life, clarity of his prophetic declarations. With imprints of nostalgia,
she tells Emileo Castrol about her life’s episodes
Rverend Mother Olive Sulola Adejobi, a nonagenarian, was married to the second Primate of the Church of the Lord (Aladura), Adeleke Adejobi. On September 26, 1927, she was born in Iporo-Ake, Abeokuta, to a father who dealt in cocoa and palm kernel and a mother in the tie and dye business. She was fondly called Iya Alaaro. Young Sulola started primary school at Iporo-Ake Anglican Church School, then Ake Primary School, where Prof. Wole Soyinka’s father was the headmaster