{"id":87855,"date":"2021-10-31T19:36:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T18:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=87855"},"modified":"2021-10-31T19:36:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T18:36:55","slug":"yinka-odumakins-widow-gives-birth-to-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/yinka-odumakins-widow-gives-birth-to-twins\/","title":{"rendered":"Yinka Odumakin\u2019s widow gives birth to twins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1715156492548673536\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, widow of the late spokesperson of Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin, was delivered \u00a0of bouncing twins &#8211; a boy and a girl &#8211; at a United States of America hospital on Wednesday, October 27, 2021.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The mother and the babies are in excellent health condition.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The &#8220;miracle&#8221; birth fulfilled the wishes of the late Odumakin towards the end of his sojourn on earth to have another baby to be named after him.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The couple got married in 1997, had their first baby girl in 2000 and the second, a boy, in 2003. While the girl was named after Joe, the boy was named Abraham after the late Afenifere leader, Pa Abraham Adesanya.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The twins are coming 18 years after the last childbirth.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">After he survived a three-day coma in 2020 and a few months before he succumbed to the illness that eventually but unexpectedly claimed his life, YO, as he is fondly called, developed a strong desire for him and his wife to have another baby.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Thank God Joe did not dither or procrastinate as she took in just about the time YO took ill and never recovered.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It was good news that Joe conceived but YO never got to hear the news of his wishes coming to pass as he did not make it out of the ventilator.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He had, however, prophetically left words concerning what the baby or babies should be called if his wishes materialised.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">YO was so accurate in his predictions that they could be twins (and their sex) that he gave the names of the babies and told his wife how he would raise them.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">While many may interpret this to mean that YO had premonition about his death, it was only a strong desire expressed by him to have babies that he would dot over and who would possibly step into his &#8220;aluta&#8221; shoes.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It&#8217;s a dream come true!<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, widow of the late spokesperson of Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin, was delivered \u00a0of bouncing twins &#8211; a boy and a girl &#8211; at a United States of America&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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