Saturday, 16 November 2013

GOV ADAMS OSHIOMHOLE RECALLS FOND MEMORIES OF LATE WIFE

At the 5th anniversary of his tenure as Edo State
Government, the governor, Comrade Adams
Oshiomhole spoke to journalists about his life as a
widower. His late wife Clara Oshiomhole died in 2010 after battling with cancer.
When he was asked why he's yet to remarry,
Oshiomhole said:
I wish you would have avoided the question
because really when I talk about my late wife,
people may not understand why.
If you come from my background, any woman
who agrees to marry a man who is not rich, a
man who alternates between police stations
and cells and lives in a one or two bedroom
apartment, that is your real love. When my
wife said I love you, it was from her heart.
To have the kind of wife I had, who was
familiar with all the police stations in Kaduna
and outside, and sometimes searching for her
husband who might have gone to work and
detained by Police on account of trade union
work, it was her lot to stand by me and she
bore all the deprivations of a husband you
were never sure where he was going to be at
the next minute.
At a point, she called me an absentee
husband. So I looked around and imagined that
she should have been by my side today to
share the joy of my 5th year anniversary.
The only worry she ever had was who was
going to employ our children owing to my
agitations with big establishments, because as
an organized labour, when we leave the NLC,
we fear that our lives would be lonely because
it would be a payback time for all those big
people I have harassed in the course of my
work.
So, it would have been joyous for her to see
that five years down the road , I have more
people around me than I have before.
Her second fear was that she never approved
my involvement in politics because she was
very proud to be referred to as the wife of
Oshiomhole because then she gets all the
favour and saw the affection because most
Nigerians were happy with my stewardship at
the NLC.
She was worried that once I get into politics, I
would be ridiculed and all of that would go.
She felt I should keep the name. But I told her
even before I went into the NLC, NLC was a
write off and I said you can always chose how
you want to be remembered.
So for all that and for many other reasons, that
is one thing that I regret that she should have
been there to also see the other side of life.
I have seen it all, in this state now, they are
people who will call me the oppressor and you
know who they are, the oppressors of
yesterday. If you ask 'Mr fix it' who I am, he
will tell you I'm oppressing him because I have
de-fixed him.
It would have been nice for my wife to see
life's full circle; that those guys who feasted
on us and cheated, that we have reduced them
to political vegetables and placed them on
permanent political oxygen".
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