Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are deemed mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one, both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.
If this is true, then Architect Lanre Towry Coker, former Lagos State Commissioner for Housing and his wife, Bisi could be said to have been anything but soul-mates, while their marriage lasted. The marriage between the duo has crashed and while it lasted 30-year union produced three children. In the aftermath of the divorce, the couple’s first daughter, who got married in London in 2007, is said to be the most devastated by her parents’ break-up, having failed repeatedly to broker truce between her parents and mend the cracks in their marriage along with her brothers. Before their marriage hit the rocks, Lanre and Bisi disputed the ownership of their home on Ilabere Close, Ikoyi, Lagos; while Bisi insisted she on taking ownership of the property because she owned the land on which it was built, Lanre argued that he had a greater claim to the property since he financed its construction. Eventually, Bisi, the daughter of industrialist and lawyer, Chief Chris Ogunbanjo, was allowed to take ownership of the property