Meet Bunmi Oshonaike, Seyi Tinubu’s biological mother, who is a Celestial Church member

Seyi Tinubu’s Biological Mother is Bunmi Oshonaike.

Claim: Seyi Tinubu’s biological mother is Bunmi Oshonaike, not Senator Oluremi Tinubu, as incorrectly displayed in some Google search results.

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Seyi Tinubu, the son of Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is often inaccurately portrayed in online search results as the biological son of Senator Oluremi Tinubu. However, reliable sources and historical records clarify that Seyi Tinubu’s biological mother is Bunmi Oshonaike, a former air hostess.

Bunmi Oshonaike was married to Bola Tinubu before his current wife, Senator Oluremi Tinubu. The marriage produced Seyi Tinubu before the union dissolved. Subsequently, Bola Tinubu married Senator Oluremi Tinubu, who became Seyi’s stepmother. While Oluremi Tinubu plays a prominent role in Seyi’s life, particularly given her public profile, she is not his biological mother. Google’s algorithm appears to misrepresent this fact by linking Seyi Tinubu to Senator Oluremi Tinubu, likely due to her high visibility as the First Lady and long-standing senator. This highlights the need for better contextual accuracy in automated search results to prevent the spread of misinformation.

Final Verdict. The claim is true: Seyi Tinubu’s biological mother is Bunmi Oshonaike, not Senator Oluremi Tinubu. Who is Bunmi Oshonaike? Bunmi Oshonaike, a former air hostess with the defunct Nigeria Airways, is the biological mother of Seyi Tinubu, the son of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. This fact clarifies the common misconception that Senator Oluremi Tinubu is Seyi Tinubu’s mother. Nigerians are widely aware of this distinction. Seyi Tinubu has celebrated his biological mother’s birthday publicly, including publishing tributes in national newspapers since 2022, further affirming her role as his mother.

Her ethnicity is Yoruba, originating from the southwestern region of Nigeria. Although unconfirmed sources suggest that she hails from Lagos State, there are no detailed accounts of her biography available online. Bunmi is 65 years old as of 2024. This calculation is based on her 60th birthday, which was celebrated and published by THISDAY Newspaper on November 11, 2019. This publication confirms her birth year, making her age 65 in 2024.

THIS STORY FIRST APPEARED IN EJEGISTNEWS

VIA LAGOS TIMES

No Loud Noise…As Seyi Tinubu’s Mother, Bunmi Oshonike Celebrates 60th Birthday

Anytime news breaks that Seyi Tinubu’s mother is celebrating her birthday, minds invariably conjure up a picture of Senator Oluremi Tinubu, wife of the Lion of Bourdillon, surrounded by husband and children and associates in all their pomp and grandeur, taking over some exclusive highbrow spot and making merry into the wee hours of the night.

However, this time around, the mother in question is actually the lesser-spotted Bunmi Oshonike, one time darling of high society and current minister in the Lord’s Vineyard. It has been an open secret for some time now that Bunmi, rather than Senator Oluremi, is the biological mother of the APC chieftain’s first son and heir presumptive Seyi.

Friday November 15, happens to be the 60th birthday of Bunmi Oshonike. In contrast to the mother-of-all birthday celebrations already being planned for Senator Oluremi’s 60th next year, Bunmi’s ascension into the sexagenarian club happened without much fanfare. In fact, not many people knew she was celebrating. Such is the marked contrast in fortunes from her days as an air hostess when the Who’s Who feted and toasted her at the slightest opportunity.

Now, songs of praise have replaced fuji and pop music, the dance floor has made way for the pulpit, and prayers have gained the upper hand over raucous wining and dining. Bunmi Oshonike celebrated her birthday quietly with only a few family and church members in attendance.

One wonders what Seyi makes of all this. As his fortunes rise and rise with the stars in sight, his mother’s popularity recedes further and further into the margins.

Already being positioned to make a run at the Lagos governorship seat come 2023, Seyi cannot afford domestic distractions at this moment. Perhaps his biological mother, cognizant of this, elected to hold a lowkey birthday celebration in order not to bring too much attention to herself.

The renowned Prophetess is the main attraction at the Calvary Parish of the Celestial Church of Christ, Ọgbà, Lagos. The sweet, silky voice which she used to soothe anxious passengers into a state of relaxation is now used to minister the word of God to attentive audiences. Even though she enjoyed the good things of life in her former life, she has embraced her new life with no regrets.

Unlike some high profile cases with mothers publicly demanding compensation from the father and public recognition from their children, and sometimes demanding the children themselves, the palaver over Seyi’s birth seems to have been resolved amicably.

Bunmi seems content to let Senator Oluremi play the role of her child’s mother, especially since she’s taken care of him from childhood. Seyi, on his part, has been known to visit his biological mother in secret, but remain reluctant to publicly rock the boat.

THIS ARTICLE WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE LAGOS TIMES IN 2019