Former President,
Goodluck Jonathan, says he had planned to shun public appearances for the next
1 year, but for the death of Chief Dideolu Awolowo, he had to come out.
Earlier
on Wednesday, Jonathan and wife, Patience, visited the family of late HID Awolowo,
at Ikenne, Ogun state, to pay their condolences.
During the visit, Jonathan said
himself and Patience had been in hiding since leaving office.
He
said: “My wife and I are not mourning because mama has passed on. For me,
we believe that it’s a rare privilege to add extra 29 years to the biblical
three scores and ten; it’s not easy.
“Ordinarily,
we wouldn’t have been mourning but mama was a rare mother. She was a woman of
virtue described in the Bible and she was a mother to all of us; a mother
whose milk of kindness we still need, her milk of encouragement we still need,
her milk of advice we still need and today she’s no more with us.
“We,
just like the immediate children, and indeed this country, have missed her.
Within this period, myself and my wife have been hiding; we don’t even go out.
We thought we’ll be hiding for at least twelve months.
“But
in this particular case, we cannot hide. So, we have come for the condolence
and to encourage our brothers and sisters that we are together. God brought her
for all of us. She just had to be the direct mother of few but she’s a mother
to all. We shall mourn more than even the direct children would.”
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