For the prominent Ajimobi family of Oyo State, the date of June 25 and the arrival of Thursday have permanently transformed from standard markers on a calendar into an almost unbelievable chain of tragedy.
On Thursday, June 25, 2026, while political allies, family members, and associates gathered to mark the exact sixth anniversary of the passing of the former two-term Governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, a fresh disaster was quietly unfolding across the Atlantic.
Miles away in a London hospital, Alhaji Teslim Adeboye Ajimobi—the younger brother of the late governor and a vital pillar of the family’s grassroots political machinery—breathed his last at the age of 67.
The coincidence is mind-boggling when you factor in the fact that no other June 25 has been a Thursday since Governor Ajimobi’s passing in 2020. The only recurrence of a Thursday matching the exact date also claimed the life of his younger brother.
Beyond the eerie coincidence of the June 25 date, a deeper, staggering temporal pattern has emerged that has left observers stunned: all three prominent losses suffered by the family occurred on a Thursday.
Thursday, June 25, 2020: The patriarch and former Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, passed away in Lagos at the age of 70 following severe medical complications.
Thursday, March 27, 2025: The family’s beloved eldest daughter, Mrs Abisola Kola-Daisi (née Ajimobi), a prominent 42-year-old luxury entrepreneur and federal aide, passed away in London after a private health battle.
Thursday, June 25, 2026: Exactly six years to the very day of his brother’s demise, Alhaji Teslim Ajimobi took his final breath in a UK hospital.
This unrelenting pattern has sent shockwaves through the family’s inner circle. The untimely death of Alhaji Teslim, coming so soon after Abisola’s demise, means the immediate family—particularly the former First Lady, Dr Florence Ajimobi—has had to endure the agonising, unfathomable burden of burying a husband, a daughter, and now a trusted brother-in-law, all snatched away on the same day of the week.
A double tragedy on June 25
The timing of Teslim’s passing has added a heavy layer of grief to what was already a solemn week.
On Thursday morning, prominent figures like Chief Adebayo Adelabu and Hon. Shina Peller were arriving at the family’s Oluyole Estate residence in Ibadan to pay homage and comfort the late governor’s widow.
Instead of a peaceful memorial, the family was plunged right back into the identical dark cloud of mourning they had met six years earlier, as phones began to ring with the breaking news from London.
The silent engine of the Ajimobi dynasty
Unlike his late elder brother, who commanded the public spotlight as a charismatic, larger-than-life chief executive, Alhaji Teslim Ajimobi operated largely in the corporate world, maintaining extensive business interests outside Nigeria.
However, when duty called, he was the ultimate custodian of the family’s local political goodwill. In 2017, during the height of his brother’s administration, Teslim stepped directly into the political arena, serving as the Caretaker Chairman of the Ibadan South-East Local Government Area.
Local associates remember his brief stint for intense grassroots engagement, fierce loyalty to the progressive cause, and a preference for staying completely out of the media limelight.
His sudden demise represents a staggering blow to the political structure left behind by the late governor, particularly as political actors begin aligning for the state’s upcoming electoral cycles.
As condolences pour in from top echelons of the All Progressives Congress (APC) across the South-West, the Ajimobi family is left to navigate an extraordinary intersection of history, fate, and profound, compounding loss.
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