so you treated me like I was your child. In good and bad times your home was always another home for me. You didn’t just give me shelter or feed me rather you always cared about how I and my family was doing. Beyond that your words of encouragement and warmth served as a source of strength to this young man at a time when life had started showing just how hard and difficult it could be.

Such love and hospitality is the kind of thing celebrated in movies and books. Yet in you I and so many others have witnessed and experienced it first hand. You also succeeded in imbibing those traits into your children because they also exhibit this generosity.

Rest in peace mama the world has lost one of it’s brightest lights. Nigeria has lost a great leader I and the rest of your children, not only the ones you gave birth to, have lost an amazing mother.

Michael Adekunle