Nigerian socialite and co-host of Your View, Yeni Kuti was pleasantly shocked on her 55th birthday with a marriage proposal from her longtime beau, Theo Lawson.
Yeni had been treated to a birthday bash on Tuesday, May 24 at the Prince of Anthony Hotels, Anthony Village, Lagos.
Prior to the party, a New Afrika Shrine insider revealed that all day long she had thought Theo Lawson, her fiancé was taking her on a private get-away where they would not be disturbed.
When Theo ushered her to the hotel’s Chinese restaurant, as part of her private birthday treat, she almost fainted, because waiting there were friends and family including Femi Kuti; her super star brother, her colleagues at TVC, the Kuti clan, childhood friends, and a host of other associates all numbering about fifty, who burst into a Happy Birthday song.
Femi Kuti, Seun Kuti and Dr. Dotun Ransome-Kuti, the eldest of the today’s Kuti clan and Kunle Kuti, all took turns to pour encomiums on the her.
And when Theo Lawson, her fiancé of over five years proposed marriage to Yeni, the hall exploded with cheers.
Her father had married 27 wives in the same hotel on February 19, 1978 on the first anniversary of the burning of ‘Kalakuta Republic’ by ‘Unknown Soldiers.’ Then the hotel was known as Hotel Parisona.
