The Rashidi Yekini Family (Saga Part 2)

His love life

By Ayo Ademokoya... (continued from part 1) 

Rashidi Yekini was married five times and had two children from his first and third marriages. The most celebrated one was his wedding to Kemi Olumo at the D’Rovans Hotel Ibadan in 1994. The marriage lasted for just less than 8weeks as Rashidi Yekini mysteriously sent his wife packing from his base in Greece and vowed never to have anything to do with his newly wedded wife whom he married against all odd despite the threat from his first love and mother of his first daughter, Pat Moriam  who at that time was pregnant with his first daughter and got a court injunction against his been legally married to Kemi. Pat eventually moved to the UK and had Rashidat Yemisi Yekini.

His marriage to Deola, a princess from one of the towns in Osun state lasted about 4 months and  produced his second daughter Moariam Omoyemi Yekini in 1998.

The shortest and the most devastating of his marriage was to a 17 year old Hausa girl named Murijanat who lived in Sabo area of Ibadan. The marriage was short-lived as the girl left him to marry someone else who in all ramifications is not anything comparable to the status of Rashidi Yekini the famous footballer. This was another reason for his life of recluse as he could not come to terms with the fact he could not tie down a permanent relationship despite been kind and loving.

He also had a fling with a lady who came to squat with one of Yekini’s tenant at his Oni and sons house in Ibadan. Yekini never denied sleeping with the girl a couple of times. What baffled him was how the lady came back with an 8months  pregnancy when in actual fact  he claimed to have stopped having sex with her for over a year!.

The lady traveled to Ijagbo, Kwara state to report the Yekini to his the mother who gladly  accepted and allowed her to deliver her baby in Ijagbo.

A furious Rashidi would no longer have anything to do with her mother for accepting such a “bastard” as his son and also cut off his relationship with his siblings who thought it was a joke at first.

In company of a friend called Baba Lace in sabo, Rashidi sought spiritual help and was told that his inability for him to tie down a successful marriage was due to the attack from his family member who had been benefiting from his largesse and feared that if he is settled he would rather concentrate on his family than them. This further deepens the relationship between him and his family till he was abducted by the same people claiming they had taken him to a private doctor for treatment where he died..


1) Ayo Ademokoya interviewing Rashidi Yekini's best friend, Alhaji Idris Bawa who was Rashidi's best man  during the wedding to Kemi Olumo in 1994 at the D'Rovans Hotel. He was the one who arranged for Kemi to stay in his house when she was thrown out of Rashidi's home in Greece and Ring Road Ibadan.
2) Ayo Ademokoya interviewing Deola mother of  Rashidi's second daughter Omoyemi Moriam Yekini
3)Ayo Ademokoya with Baba Lace who took Rashidi to the muslim cleric where his marital problem was  revealed to him as been spiritual.