Awolowo Family: No One Can Fast-track Our Mother's Death

…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.