By KEMI KASUMU
Mrs Mutiatu Oluwafunmilayo Adebayo, wife of Oyo State Correspondent, Leadership Newspaper, Alhaji Waheed Adebayo, is dead.
She was 53.
Husband of the deceased, Alhaji Adebayo, announced the death via his Facebook timeline on Sunday November 27, 2022.
“Inalillah waina rajiun. My inestimable jewel, Ajike has gone to meet her Creator. Thank for the blessed 35 years we have together. Though, there is no perfection in humanity, I never regretted having you as my wife and mother of my children. Pray Allah to forgive your sins, grant you Aljanah Fridous. Ajike mi owon sun re ooo,” he posted.
The unfortunate albeit inevitable event happened like a rude shock as the apparently hail and hearty wife of 35 years old marriage passed shortly after saying her solatul ishai, the fifth and last of five daily Muslim prayers on Friday November 25, 2022.
Speaking to The DEFENDER, during a visit to the Adebayo family house in Sango, Ado/Odo Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State on Sunday, Journalist Waheed Adebayo, the deceased’s husband, said it was an event that was shocking but that he had accepted it for Allah.
Explaining how it happened, the Abeokuta Ogun State-born Journalist said: “We live together in Ibadan where I live by my posting as Leadership Newspaper’s Oyo State Correspondent. She was however on visit to her younger brother at Cement, in Dopemu, Agege, Lagos. As a routine, she takes stroll after and after saying her ishai on Friday, she did same.
“It was in the course of her strolling that she hit her leg against an object on the road and fell. According to the account, she fainted but was revived.
“Sadly, the revival was to be temporary as her condition went bad again and she was then rushed to a nearby private hospital, where she was rejected. She was then rushed to the General Hospital where she was confirmed to have given up the ghost before arrival,” he said.
Comments by Mutiatu’s mother-in-law and neighbours at Sango indicated that, not only she was a good daughter-in-law but also, she was a loving Muslim and neighbour to all.
As at the time of The DEFENDER’s Sunday evening, the deceased’s mother, who lives in Ijoko, Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of the State was yet to be informed for fear of the unknown, considering that Mutiatu was her eldest child.
She was survived by husband, mother and children.
In the meantime, condolence messages have been trickling into the Adebayo family. Those who have either called or physically paid visit included his Journalist colleagues in Lagos, Ogun and Oyo states.
They have prayed that, “Allah forgives the gentle soul of the departed wife of their energetically colleague and repose it in AlJannah Firdaus, Amiin.”
