FATIMA WALI FINDS LOVE AGAIN

Barely five years after the crash of her marriage to Yomi Edu, the Lagos born politician, Fatima Isa Wali decided to take a plunge into marriage again. The highly successful architect is now married to Suraj Abdulrahman, a retired Military General. Since they got married, the couple has become inseparable and they strive to make the most of the moments they share together. Sources disclosed that Suraj was a rock of support for Fatima, after her marriage to Edu crashed. His involvement and depth of commitment to her, led most people to believe that the affair had all the potentials of crystallising a marriage. And it did, eventually.  

 Fatima is the former wife of Chief Yomi Edu, the former Minister for Special Duties and prominent politician. Her marriage to Yomi is blessed with three children; Luqman, Sadiq and Farouq. These three young men love their mother to bits and they make no pretence of the fact that their world revolves around her. Fatima brought up her sons to have a passion for helping underprivileged children. While growing up, their mother made it imperative for them to visit orphanage homes on regular basis. Predictably, Fatima’s first son, Luqman has developed a passion for helping the underprivileged. He has a charity known as TELD, through which he organizes various programmes, especially football matches with his friends to raise funds for orphanage homes. Through TELD, Luqman and his two brothers have made appreciable impact. The three young brothers have been able to raise substantial amount of money, which they use in giving scholarship awards to orphans as well as doing construction works in some orphanage homes.

Fatima is the daughter of the Ambassador Isa Wali, the former Nigerian Ambassador to the United States. Following the death of her husband in 1967, Fatima’s mother, Hajia Zainab got married to Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki, the former Sultan of Sokoto. Having lost her father when she was barely ten, Fatima and her sister, Maryam, the wife of Justice Mohammed Uwais, grew up to know Alhaji Dasuki as their father. Fatima had her early education at St. Saviour’s School, Corona School and Queen’s College, Yaba, Lagos. Later, she enrolled at the Ahmadu Bello University, ABU, Zaria, to study Architecture. However, during her second year in ABU, Fatima transferred to the University of Minnesota, USA, from where she bagged a degree in Architecture and a minor in Urban Studies. Later, she bagged a Master degree in Economics and Management Construction from the University College, London. Today, Fatima Wali ranks top as one of the most prolific architects in the country. She has a fertile experience in her field and she has proved to be a thoroughbred professional. Prior to setting up her own architectural firm, Fatima Wali had worked with several companies, including Alpha Properties, Femi Majekodunmi and Associates among others. In 1994, she co-established Participant Properties Limited, which was into property development and management. However, when the portfolio of the company grew bigger, there was a need to establish another company that will take away the job of the property management from Participant Properties, so as to allow it to concentrate on it’s construction duties. Subsequently, Fatima decided to set up Filmo Realty Limited, with its corporate headquarters in Victoria Island.