Ex-Nigeria president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has disclosed that his mother carried him for 12 months, as against the regular nine month pregnancy.
Obasanjo attributed the delay in his birth to the influence of witches and wizards who gave his mother a tough time before God’s intervention.
According to a statement issued in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, by his media assistant, Kehinde Akinyemi, on Thursday, the former president made the revelation during a drama presentation titled “Aremu omo Asabi” , which was held to mark 66 years remembrance of his late mother, Bernice Obasanjo.
The drama took place on Wednesday, at the main auditorium of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta.
Obasanjo, who is Nigeria’s first democratically elected president, bemoaned that it was unfortunate his mother never lived to see how much God has marvellously helped him to achieve in life.
He said that though his mother gave birth to nine children, only two of them, himself and his sister, survived.
“I was told I was in my mother’s womb for 12 months, and since I was born, I have not been left for once. She had nine children, but two of us survived, myself and my sister,” he said.
“I was the only one who went to school because my father’s belief was that no matter how educated a female child is, she would end up in the kitchen.”
The former president pledged support to help the troupe’s quest to present the longest open drama to clinch a Guinness Book of Record.
Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun, was represented at the event by his deputy, Noimot Salako-Oyedele.
