Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosunmu, daughter of the nationalist Obafemi Awolowo, has said that her father died in his bathroom in 1987.
She disclosed this in a recent interview with Edmund Obilo at the Awolowo family home in Ikenne.
Recalling her mother’s explanation of how Awolowo died, Mrs Awolowo-Dosunmu said, “She said Papa had woken up in the morning but he locked the door to go to the bathroom. But after a few minutes she thought he should have come out of the bathroom and she knocked gently, no answer; knocked loudly, no answer.
“Then she called his driver of 40 or 50 years and they took a big stick. At that point they knew there was something seriously wrong.”
In the morning of his passing, Awolowo-Dosunmu said she arrived at the family home and laid on her father’s body in tears....[CONTINUE READING HERE ▶▶]
“I simply fell on his body and lay there. They had to pull me off,” she said.
“It was a bad day and I knew I had lost a vital pillar in my life,” she added.
Awolowo-Dosunmu said she saw her father on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and then on Saturday he died.
