Son of the renowned lawyer Afe Babalola, Gboyega Afe Babalola, has married Amina, daughter of Abduljalil Tafawa Balewa from the Tafawa Balewa dynasty.
Their union was sealed at the Ansarudeen Mosque Maitama, Abuja on Friday.
Among those who attended the wedding were Senators Shehu Sani and Gbenga Daniel.
“Amina Tafawa Balewa just got married to Gbenga Afe Babalola at yhe Ansarudeen Mosque, Maitama, Abuja,” Sani tweeted on his X handle @ShehuSani on Saturday.
The couple earlier held a civil wedding and a traditional ceremony.
Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa KBE PC (December 1912 – 15 January 1966) was a Nigerian politician who served as the first and only prime minister of Nigeria upon independence.
A conservative Anglophile, he favoured maintaining close ties with the British. During his first few years in office as prime minister, Nigeria was a constitutional monarchy with Elizabeth II reigning as Queen of Nigeria, until Nigeria became a republic in 1963.
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He was both a defender of Northern special interests and an advocate of Nigerian reform and unity.
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was born Mallam Abubakar in December 1912 in the Northern Nigeria Protectorate (modern-day Bauchi State).
His father, Yakubu Dan Zala, was of Gere ethnicity, and his mother Fatima Inna was of Gere and Fulani descent.
His father worked in the house of the district head of Lere, a district within the Bauchi Emirate.
He took his name from two corrupted Fula language words: “Tafari” (Rock) and “Baleri” (Black), which resulted in the childhood nickname “Black Rock”.
With additional reports by QED
