Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra state penultimate week gave out his daughter, Adaora in marriage and confessed that it was a jinx breaking event. David-Chyddy Eleke reports that Soludo has followed a pattern of consistently beaking jinxes. Two weeks ago, pictures of the daughter of Anambra State governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, Adaora and his heartthrob, Arinze Ibekwe surfaced on social media, where they held their marriage in a London registry in the presence of few family members.
Critics went to work and lampooned the governor for joining the new fad of prominent individuals who hold their daughters marriages outside their ancestry. Earlier, Senator Andy Ubah had held his daughter’s traditional marriage in Abuja, while Senator Victor Umeh had given his daughter out in a colourful ceremony held in Enugu. Some other individuals had also held traditional events outside the state, including music star, Flavour who quietly ferried his father’s corpse to his hometown, Umunze, Anambra State and conducted a private burial for him, before moving to Enugu for the funeral ceremony, where he entertained his guests.
These actions had been attributed to insecurity in the state, and when Soludo’s daughter’s marriage pictures abroad surfaced, critiques accused him of joining the trend because he had failed in the area of security. But what no one knew was that the governor was not ready to let such a memorable event slip through his fingers, as he was later to confess that the .