What does Valentine mean to you?
Valentine to me is just a day dedicated to celebrate love and portray it
as a special and necessary phenomenon. It is a day the virtues of what
love is, is extolled and celebrated. It is a day humanity is reminded of
the kind of love Jesus Christ has for humanity. So, celebrating
Valentine is all about celebrating true and unconditional love or else
it won’t be worth celebrating. Valentine is not a day to celebrate just
the amorous or popular kind of love, but exactly the type of love Jesus
Christ came to institute for the total liberation, well-being and unity
of the human kind. I celebrate Valentine because I believe in love.
What plans do you have for this Valentine?
I will be celebrating Valentine on February 14 to express my deep
affection in its originality, especially to someone who deserves it more
in my life: my darling and bosom wife and soul mate, Foluke
Daramola-Salako. She is my Valentine for February 14 and that is where
the world should expect me to share it and express it. I try to
celebrate it in such a way that, at the end of the day, someone special
will feel deeply loved and vice versa.
Unfortunately, fate has made it
in such a way that it will always be a period, which coincides with my
wife’s birthday and our wedding anniversary, as well. So, what we are
doing to celebrate during this year’s Valentine will also accommodate
all we are going to be doing to mark the celebration of my wife’s
birthday and our anniversary. On the 13th, my wife’s rape foundation,
Action Against Rape in Africa (AARA) will be doing something special to
show love to some victims of rape in the state. I understand these
victims are going to be supported and celebrated with some gift items to
show better love to them. On the 14th, we plan to spend what we share
probably in a five-star hotel for a difference. And on the 15th, which
is my wife’s birthday and our anniversary day, we plan to give it a
slight and remarkable celebration. Maybe in our house or any other place
of our choice with some few close friends and family members.
What’s the best Valentine gift you’ve ever gotten from your partner?
The best Valentine’gift I have ever received from anyone is from Foluke.
Giving me her heart and her life to manage is the best gift I have ever
received from anyone.
How often do you express love to each other?
We love and live in each other. So, asking me how often we express it to
each other is like asking me how often I breathe in oxygen. Loving
Foluke is already part of my life. I live in it and it is already what I
am living to enjoy. I only pray we can both sustain it for as long as
God wants it to last.
What does love mean to you?
One unique thing about me is that if I love my woman, I let her know.
So, I tell her almost every morning what I feel about her, especially
when I am in the best of my mood. Foluke is not a perfect woman. In
fact, far from it. But one thing that is sure is the way I feel about
her. And it is a confirmation that it is natural, genuine and
destiny-ordained. She is an emotionally open, fragile and passionate
woman that deserves all the best from her man. I hope to invite you to
the celebration of our destiny child.
Foluke Daramola-Salako (Wife)
What does Valentine mean to you?
Valentine to me means a time to show love, not just to your loved ones,
but anyone that you feel you can reach out to and impact that person’s
life.
What plans do you have for this Valentine?
Every Valentine’s day always coincides with my birthday. Now, it also
coincides with my wedding anniversary, so myself and my hubby would be
going to one of the 5-star hotels in Lagos on the 14th and 15th. We
would also be having a small anniversary and birthday party. But before
then, on the 13th, we would be walking against rape in Nigeria and we
would be taking food and other relief materials to victims of rape in my
foundation (AARA).
What’s the best Valentine gift you’ve ever gotten from your partner?
The best Valentine gift I have gotten was and is still my hubby. Because
I met him on the 13th of February 2012! The best Valentine in my life
was the following year. I also got my wedding, a Valentine gift as well.
So, I think my luck really flows with Val. It’s like I am the love
child am being called.
How often do you express love to each other?
Every second of our lives, we always appreciate each other and we are
never economical with our expression of love. Every morning, my hubby
would wake up to tell me he loves me and I am the best thing that has
happened to him in life, and that makes me feel really special and
loved.
What does love mean to you?
Love means believing the best of each other, perfect understanding,
accepting one another despite your demerits or weaknesses, forsaking all
others for that person and most importantly, sacrifice. It comes with
excitement and sometimes pains. But it’s a feeling everybody should
experience because it’s never understood when explained, but felt.
