Mrs Adebola Isola, widow of foremost novelist and playwright who died yesterday, has relived how his husband died.
According to the widow, her husband, who died at thier Bolajoko Estate home in Ibadan, did not give any sign that he would die so soon.
In a chat with newsmen, he said that “Yesterday (Friday), my husband ate amala and gbegiri and he finished everything. My husband did not give any sign that he would die.
“Early this morning (yesterday), we had a nurse who came and gave him his bath. I prepared custard for him. I added beverage to it. As I was trying to feed him, he was just saying ‘Thank you my wife’ repeatedly. He had always been saying that, anyway. Even when his friends were around, he would ask them to thank me; that I am the reason he was not dead yet.
“When I gave him that custard and he continued to say ‘Thank you my wife,’ I called the doctor immediately. I asked my husband what happened and why he continued to say the same thing repeatedly. But he continued to say ‘Thank you my wife’ I appealed to him to take the custard, but he took only one spoon. That was 9 o’clock this morning (Saturday).
“I called the doctor. I also called the children, who are all living in Lagos that their father was just praying and not taking his breakfast. He sat on the chair in his room upstairs. He did not say more than that and myself and the nurse put him on the bed.
“Immediately we put him on the bed, he gave up the ghost. That was around 9:30am. Even, the doctor I called was not yet around at the time he died. The children too had not come from Lagos before a gave up his ghost, but two of the children are around now. He only took one spoon of custard. I was worried because he used to eat very well,” she added.
