An image from the 1970s showing a teenage former vice president Atiku Abubakar in a Lagos nightclub with his first wife Titilayo and a family friend named Sola Atiku recalled how they used to dance to King Sunny Ade’s music in a 2015 interview.
In Lagos at the time, you had to know the movements to be hip. Born into a Christian family, Titilayo Abubakar (née Albert) was raised by the Albert family, a Yoruba family from Ilesa, Osun state.
She was born and raised in Lagos, completing her elementary schooling in Lafiaji, Lagos, and her secondary education, which lasted until 1969, at St. Mary’s Iwo, Osun state. She wedded Atiku Abubakar, a youthful customs officer, in 1971 before enrolling in Kaduna Polytechnic.