Amazing lifestyles of Nigeria’s rich and famous
DJ Cuppy and Temi Otedola are no hostages to fortune. Despite their father, Femi Otedola’s amazing wealth, the beautiful daughters and heiresses to a billion dollar fortune, seek to prosper by their own merit. Cuppy, 23, and Temi, 19, would rather command the applause of listening senates and succeed by their own merit.
Wearing their beauty like a satin bow, the sisters engage in feverish pursuit of their dreams, with the determination of huntsmen seeking to catch tiger cubs by trashing the tiger’s lair. The heiresses to the Forte Oil conglomerate, among others, understand perfectly that in the pursuit of their dreams, even if their strength should fail them, their boldness will deserve praise.
Cuppy and Temi are aware that in great endeavours even to have had the will is enough. Thus even though they currently lead what the Daily Mail of London describes as a “jet-set lifestyle enjoying all the trappings of wealth,” the Otedola sisters are poised to seek their fortune and sustain it, far from the trappings of their father’s affluence. Their recent interview with the British newspaper, among other things, reveals the depth of persona and quality of grooming accorded them by their parents. Unlike most silver spoon kids who would rather feed off their parents’ fortune, Cuppy and Temi are free-spirited and sensible enough to know that the only way they could earn the respect and adulation of the world is to move out of their father’s shadow.
To this end, Cuppy and Temi have taken decisive steps to establish themselves in their preferred careers. Even though they will one day inherit their father’s fortune, worth an estimated £650million, Cuppy wants to be a successful DJ while Temi runs a successful stint as a fashion blogger. The daughters of one of Africa’s richest men are simply not content being rich and famous in their father’s shadow. They want to “work hard to make names for themselves in their own right.” “I am scared of always being his daughter and not getting past that, for me that means not being successful enough,” Cuppy reveals on Channel 4 documentary, Lagos to London, Britain’s New Super-Rich. “I am still masked by my dad’s success. If I didn’t try and make it outside Nigeria I would be unhappy.”
