Mrs. Taiwo
Obasanjo, wife of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday shelved the
proposed protest against the wedding of her son, Abraham Olujonwon Obasanjo,
citing pleas from many important personalities from within and outside the
country who prevailed on her to drop the idea.
But despite
acceding to the pleas to drop the protest which was billed for Methodist Church
of the Trinity, Tinubu, Lagos and Eko Hotel and Suites, venues of church
wedding and reception respectively, Mrs. Obasanjo failed to grace the occasion.
Mrs.
Obasanjo had opposed the wedding of her son, Olujonwon to Tope Adebutu,
daughter of Chief Kessington Adebutu on the grounds of the choice of the date
picked for the event.
She had
claimed that Olunjowon who turns 34 on June 1, 2017, according to a prophecy,
was forbidden from celebrating any elaborate wedding until he clocks 34.
Mrs.
Obasanjo in a letter dated April 28, 2017 to the Prelate, Methodist Church of
Nigeria, His Eminence Dr, Samuel C.K Uche had called on the church to probe
what she described as “questionable, suspicious and rigidity of the 11th and
13th of May, 2017 chosen for the wedding of my son, Abraham Olujonwon to Tope
Adebutu of Sir Kessington Adebutu”.
She claimed
to have met with Mrs. Adebutu and her daughter on three occasions in October
2016 to inform them about the prophecy which forbade her son from celebrating
an elaborate wedding until he attains the age of 34.
“In the
month of October 2016, thrice I went to see Mary Dacosta and her daughter, Tope
Adebutu at home to hold meetings with them and with respect I told them about
the prophecy given to me on three occasions two to three years back, that any
time Olujowon wants to get married, it should be done quietly with no noise,
that elaborate wedding should be done after he turns 34 on the 1st of June… I
was ridiculed by Rosemary Dacosta and her daughter, saying there is nothing I
can do, that the wedding would go on before 1st of June, 2017,” she claimed.
Mrs.
Obasanjo also claimed to have equally appealed to Chief Adebutu in January over
the issue without any success.
Meanwhile
the new couple has been enjoined not to allow anybody to come in between them.
In his
sermon entitled “Oneness” during the holy matrimony, Rt. Rev Michael Akinwale,
Secretary of Conference of Methodist Church Nigeria, urged the couple to unite
as one flesh and live together emotionally, psychologically, physically and
spiritually.
The cleric
called on the couple to adhere to what he called the 10 golden rules that
govern the institution of marriage. These, according to him are patience,
undiluted love, trust, faithfulness and care for each other. Others are
submissiveness, mutual respect and prayerfulness.
Rt. Rev
Akinwale also urged the couple to see their marriage as an investment and
admonished them to invest righteousness and commitment in their relationship
just as he advised them to value each other.
When Sunday
Sun correspondent called Mrs. Obasanjo to confirm if the protest against the
wedding would still hold as planned, the following conversation ensued:
I will like
to know if the protest will still hold as scheduled.
No, everyone
has been calling me across the nation even from outside the country. Important
people, men of God have been calling me to drop the protest. But I will not
attend the wedding.
What will be
your next line of action now that you are unable to stop the wedding?
I plan to
take it to God. I am a prayerful woman. I am a project of the living God.
I am of the
opinion that as a very spiritual person, you ought to have taken the matter to
God in prayer from inception without resorting to public protest.
Go and read
2 Chronicles 20:21 and 22. Was Jehoshaphat not a spiritual person when forces
that were mightier than him came against him? Was he not a spiritual person
when he mobilised people and told them to dance and sing to the almighty God?
But having
been prevailed upon and having changed your mind, don’t you think you are
supposed to be at the event?
I will never
be there. The Lord did not tell me to go.
But don’t
you think your son won’t be happy that you refused to attend his wedding?
My son has
decided to defy the warning of the almighty God. Who should be obeyed?
Is it
me, or he or the people that are forcing him that he must do the wedding by
fire by force?
But then you
must know that the decision does entirely lie with him.
He is bound to obey his
daddy who unfortunately holds a contrary view from yours or what do you think?
What is
dilemma to a man of 34 and why the desperation when June 1 is just around the
corner? Can’t he use his brain to say let me stick to the warning of God?
The
Lord says don’t engage in any noisemaking until after June 1, 2017. It is not
that he should not get married. The instruction is that any marriage he is
going to do before June 1 must be done quietly.
Who is he supposed to honour?
Is it his father or God?
This is not a
wedding, it is a demonic gathering. He is my first son and my only son. He came
through prophecy as well. It was revealed to me before his birth that he would
come as a boy and that he should be named Abraham. The prophecy started since
1978 and it materialized many years later.
In one of
your letters you described his father and the father of the bride as very
spiritual people.
Don’t you think that it is possible they are acting on a
revelation contrary to the one you were given?
What
contrary revelation? This young man did not say I want to marry this girl.
He
was introduced to the lady by my twin brother. For more than a year, this man
never showed interest in the lady.
It was when I stepped in a year after. I
went to see the girl and she said they had only met once and that my son was
not interested. She said my son was not picking her calls and that he was not
inviting her to his house and that he said he doesn’t like fat girls.
I said
okay, it is true you are fat but you too can try and slim down and then I would
pray to God to touch his heart.
Then, I went and I prevailed on him and that
was all. He didn’t court her for one single day. What if I had not gone in prayer or I did not
prevail on my son, would there have been any wedding. Anyway, let’s wait and
see.
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