…As Jonathan promises to adopt children of the deceased
Mrs. Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosunmu, one of the surviving children of the
matriarch of Awolowo family, Mrs. HID Awolowo, has asked those who might
have been wishing their aged mother death to stop that, saying, no one
could fast track her death.
Awolowo-Dosunmu stated this, yesterday, while welcoming President
Goodluck Jonathan to their family house in Ikenne on a condolence visit
over the death of their late brother, Chief Oluwole Awolowo.
Asiwaju Hamed Tinubu, Yeye HID Awolowo and Aremo Segun Osoba sympathizing with Mama Awo – Photo By WUMI AKINOLA
While disclosing the circumstances that led to the death of their brother, the woman
said, “I recall with gratitude that when our brother’s illness turned
for the worse, the statement I was told you (President ) made, I’ll
never forget, was that you will do everything to make sure mama doesn’t
grief again and unfortunately our prayers were not answered but God
knows best.
“This is a terrible time for us in this family, our brother passed
away exactly two weeks to the second anniversary of my sister and so,
for mama, we can’t even imagine what will be going on in her heart, but
we are people of faith and we believe we will never understand
everything in this side of the divide.
“ But a time will come, then, we will all be there and see God and He
will tell us why he did this and then we will understand but my prayer
as bad as this situation is, whatever that God is saying to us that we
will hear, whatever lessons he wants us to learn, we will learn and that
at the end of it all, some good will come out of this. “As for mama, we
pray for long life for her, her time will come when it will come, there
is nothing anyone can do about that. We know for a while it will be
tough on her because it is tough on us that are her siblings”.
The President was joined by ex-governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga
Daniel, ex-Chief of General Staff, General Oladipo Diya (rtd), to pay
the condolence visit to the matriarch of the Awolowo family.
Responding, Jonathan announced plan to adopt the children of the
deceased, who died in London hospital as his children. Jonathan, who
arrived Ikenne in a presidential chopper disclosed that he decided to
pay his personal condolence to the matriarch of the Awolowo family and
other members of the family because he had been integrated into the
family.
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