Former Oyo State Deputy Governor and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Iyiola Oladokun, has disclosed that he was so sickly as a toddler that people advised his late mother, Mrs Alice Oladokun, to abandon him.
Oladokun said that instead of yielding to the advice, his mother nurtured him with love and compassion until adulthood.
The former deputy governor recalled fond memories of his mother, who died at the age of 101, while speaking with journalists shortly after her burial in Ado-Awaye, Oyo State, on Saturday.
“She was everything to me. When I was a toddler, I was so sickly, and it got to a stage that people advised her to throw this baby away. But her love and compassion made her nurture me until adulthood. God Almighty answered her prayers, and I survived.
“People have asked me when I last visited a hospital. When I saw a doctor about two months ago, he asked whether I had ever been admitted to a hospital. I told him, ‘Not to my knowledge, apart from when I was a toddler,’ and even that did not happen because there was no hospital in Ado-Awaye then.
