The wife of the former President
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Mrs Taiwo Obasanjo has lamented that her son has gone
missing after he disobeyed her spiritual message against getting married on the
wrong date.
Mrs. Obasanjo said she had
reported the matter to the police, adding that her husband has a question to
answer on her son’s whereabouts.
Last year, Taiwo filed a suit in
an Ikeja High Court, seeking to stop the wedding of her son scheduled for May;
she lost the suit.
Mrs. Obasanjo, who had objected
to the timing of the wedding based on a prophecy, also insisted that her son’s
wedding should be a quiet event.
But despite her objection, the
wedding went ahead in her absence. Speaking with Sunday Sun, opened up on the
latest happening in her son’s marriage, who has left his matrimonial home.
Asked if her son’s marriage has
broken down due to the prophecy, she said, “The only problem I had [with the
marriage] was the date and all I was after was that the date should be changed.
“You see the date change had been
going on in the family before I went public. I was in support of the wedding.
Before this girl came into the scene, I was told that when he is getting
married that there should be no noise.
“That was the instruction given
to me but when this girl came I told them, let them just do this wedding
quietly. Instead, they shouted me down and were asking that how can two big
families come together and they won’t have a big wedding.
“I am the biological mother of
the groom, I gave birth to him and I am not holding on to him to be my handbag.
If you go through the Bible, instructions were given to mothers about their
children.
“For instance, Samson’s mother
was given instruction about him but Samson defied the instruction and he ended
up being killed by Delilah. Do you understand me? I know what I suffered to
have this boy. When the wedding proper came I told them not to pick a
particular date and that he should only do a big wedding after his 34th
birthday.
“On my own, I went to the mother
of the bride Rose Mary Dacosta because I thought she was a mother, but she
refused. They insisted on having the wedding in April. I told the girl too but
she was adamant. Unfortunately, people are thinking that I was against the
wedding. I wasn’t against my son’s wedding because I love him.”
Asked if she hid her son, who has
abandoned his matrimonial home, she added, “How can I hide him? Everyone has
been phoning me and asking for his whereabouts. They want to kill me and this
is another means for them. How can I hide a man who is 34 years old? What do I
want to do with him? And I can never be his wife.
“I am praying for him to be
productive and I am praying for him to be fruitful. From the first day of the
wedding, the mother of the girl said she wanted to go on honeymoon with my son
and his wife, which I have never heard of in my whole life.
“Whether I am lying my son can
testify about that. The mother insisted that she must go on a honeymoon. I
wasn’t there, but I heard that later.
“My son defied my advice and the
advice of the living God because I didn’t go soliciting for prophecy for him.
The one about the wedding came on its own. I never went to anybody to kneel
down and asked to be prayed for.
“This message came voluntarily.
For spiritual messages you don’t go soliciting, that means there are powerful
truths behind it.
“I don’t know whether the
marriage has broken down or not because the young man lives with his father in
Abeokuta while I live in Lagos. So, I think you should direct that question to
my son’s father and his wife. I am asking them both where my son is? That was
why I went to the police to make reports last year.
“I saw my son once before the
wedding when he came to tell me that, ‘Mummy I am going ahead whether you
support me or not’. He defied my orders and that was why I didn’t attend the
wedding. Everyone said they were above the almighty God who gave the message
and I am nothing because they are the ones controlling things.
“I don’t know whether the
marriage has broken down and I said I don’t live with them. The only time I
went there was last year after the wedding. Daddy OBJ called me after the
wedding, I didn’t even want to pick his call but later I did and he said he
wanted to reconcile us all. Then I went and he was asking me why I didn’t come
for my son’s wedding. My two children apologized to me and we made peace that
time.
“I also saw him when I went for a
programme, which my Uncle Professor Sunbo Martins had, which was a book launch.
That was last year. From that time to this time, I haven’t seen my son. He
doesn’t pick my call and how did I know about this? It was even his wife that
called because each time he runs from his matrimonial house, his wife will now
phone me and start asking about him.”
Disjointed and insane family
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