Veteran female singer, Salawa Abeni, professionally known as Waka Queen, has marked the posthumous birthday of her late son, Idris Olanrewaju Adepoju.
Adepoju was the only child the singer had for Lati Adepoju, the late Chief Executive Officer of Leader Records, the first record label she was signed to at the beginning of her musical career.
Although they weren’t officially married, the romantic dalliance between Salawa and Adepoju had produced Idris.
Idris died in a car accident on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on his way from Ilorin in company with his mother’s driver, Mr. Deji Ajibola. The singer did not recover from the shock of that tragic event for a very long time.
Salawa did not only lose her son to the incident but also some of her works produced while she was a signee of Leader Records.
Taking to her Instagram page to mark Idris’ posthumous 40th birthday, she penned an emotional note where she revealed that the wound she sustained as a result of her son’s death has not healed. She prayed for him and asked God to keep her remaining children.
