Shade Okoya, a businesswoman and wife of billionaire industrialist Razak Okoya, said she never felt like she had missed an older man and missed anything in her life.
Shade, 48, married the founder of Eleganza Group in 1999 at the age of 21. Her husband, Razak Okoya, is currently 85 years old.
The mother of four spoke in a recent interview with BBC Yoruba about people who questioned her decision to marry someone decades older than her. She made it clear that her marriage had come true and that age was never a problem.
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She said: “My husband is generous to me and defends me anywhere.
She expressed satisfaction with her marriage journey, adding: “I am happy with his marriage. He is much older than me, but I don’t think I’ve ever missed anything because I haven’t married a young man.”
Her remarks emerged in ongoing public curiosity and conversations surrounding marriages of large age groups, especially among high-profile couples.
