Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin, a social crusader and widow of the late spokesman of Afenifere, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, has been delivered of twins – a boy and a girl – at a hospital in the United States of America six months after of the husband’s death.
It was learnt that the twins were born on Wednesday, October 27, 2021.
The twins came 18 years after the birth of their last child.
The couple got married in 1997 and 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.
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, Yinka, developed a strong desire for him and his wife to have another baby.
In a statement by his wife, her husband had left instructions for the name or names of the baby. The statement read in part, “He had, however, prophetically left words concerning what the baby or babies should be called if his wishes materialised.
“YO, as he is fondly called, was so accurate in his predictions that they could be twins (and their sex) that he gave the names of the babies and told me how he would raise them.
“While many may interpret this to mean that YO had a 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 “aluta” shoes. It’s a dream come true!”
