Day my Father Died I Iaid on Him and Cried– Ambassador Tokunbo Dosumu

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By Taye Akinrinlola.

Ambassador Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosumu, daughter of the sage Obafemi Awolowo, spoke of how his father’s body was found in the bathroom and how she laid flat on him in tears that fateful day in 1987.

Speaking in a recent interview with Edmund Obilo at the Awolowo family home in Ikenne Tokunbo recalled her mother’s narration of how Awolowo died,

“She said Papa had woken up in the morning but he locked the door to go to the bathroom. But after a few minutes she thought he should have come out of the bathroom and she knocked gently, no answer; knocked loudly, no answer.

“Then she called his driver of 40 or 50 years and they took a big stick. At that point they knew there was something seriously wrong.

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“In the morning of his passing I arrived at the family home and laid on her his body in tears.

“I simply fell on his body and lay there. They had to pull me off,”

“It was a bad day and I knew I had lost a vital pillar in my life,” she added.

Awolowo-Dosumu said it was painful “to see my father on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and then on Saturday he died.”