“I Was Warned Not To Marry Demola, That He Wanted My Money” – Socialite Farida After Failed Sui$ide Bid

By Adesina Soyooye

Owner of House Of Phreeda,  a luxurious Beauty Palour in Surulere, Lagos, Farida Abdulkabir, has regretted her attempt to jump into the Lagos Lagoon in a bid to end her life.

She has, also, apologized to her children for putting them through  trauma, and said she wouldn’t have forgiven herself if she had killed herself and abandoned her children. She had three children from a previous marriage.

Nigerians had woken up Friday morning to the disturbing video of the beautiful entrepreneur and socialite being restrained by good Samaritans from taking her own life by jumping into the Lagos lagoon.

She was, apparently, pushed into such satanic attempt by a heartbreak sparked off by the crash of her marriage to fellow socialite, Demola Okulaja. The lavish wedding, which according to reports quoting Farida, cost a whopping N100m, crashed after 41days. Demola, reportedly, walked out on her.

In her first reaction after being saved from a painful, shameful, sudden death, she apologized to her children for her action and said she wouldn’t have forgiven herself if she had succeeded in committing suicide. She disclosed she was pushed into the satanic attempt by her frustration when Demola walked out on  their marriage. She revealed that she was warned by friends and family not to marry Demola as they felt he was after her money, but that she was blinded by love.

She reportedly said: “Friends and families warned me not to go into the marriage. They told me that the man only wanted my money but I was recalcitrant.

“It was love that pushed me into this. He told me that he was going to be with me, make me bore (sic) children for him.

“I am so sorry for putting my children into such a position. I would not have forgiven myself if I had abandoned them after committing sui$ide.

“I have forgiven my ex-husband. May God provide him with another wife.”

Farida and Demola had a messy separation, revealing ugly things about each other with some unprintable choice words to boot.