Barely eight months after Afenifere spokesman, Yinka Odumakin died, his wife, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, gave birth to twins – a boy and a girl – at a United States of America hospital on Wednesday, October 27, 2021.
The “miracle” 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.
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.
The twins are coming 18 years after the last childbirth.
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.
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He had, however, prophetically left words concerning what the baby or babies should be called if his wishes materialised.
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.
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 “aluta” shoes.
Yinka Odumakin died on the 3rd of April, 2021 at the intensive care unit of LASUTH where he was being managed for respiratory issues due allegedly to complications from COVID-19 which he had recovered from weeks before.