The wife of the late spokesman of Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin, Joe Okei-Odumakin, on Tuesday disclosed that her husband died on Friday and not Saturday.
Okei-Odumakin in a tribute made available to the News Agency of Nigeria, said it is important to out put the record straight in the spirit of truth that Odumakin stood for.
The tribute is entitled: “Yinka: Basking in the shadow that you cast”.
She wrote, “Now that I am in possession of your death certificate, I can see you passed on at exactly 10.40 p.m. on Good Friday (April 2, 2021) and not in the morning of Saturday, (April 3, 2021) as initially communicated.”
“The medics said his oxygen level was running low but my husband was reaching out for his tab to type out his column.”
“Since no one is permitted in the Critical Care Unit, we had committed you to the care of the best qualified medics at LASUTH and the hand of God, hoping to see you next morning.”
“The medics said they could not fathom how to immediately relay the message of your passage to me directly.”
The activist while speaking on the time his husband spent while alive said her husband was never frugal in spending that “oxygen on his Yoruba earth, his beloved and his Nigeria, his truly beloved”.
She said that if breath was the currency of life and its legal tender, then her husband spent his breath on causes.
“My memories are rousing through chains of pains; a sea surge of a romance which sprouted in General Sani Abacha’s detention.
“My husband was not a criminal, neither was I.”
“ Our `crime’ was standing strong for others as we always have been. We will return to the dingy detention cell in our reminiscences later,” she said.
