' I will still have a child'

• I  have been living alone for 45 years

• I will still have a child
•  Ki lo kan won n'be?
•  Abraham had a child at over 100 years 

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           Primate  Ayoola Omonigbehin


        He is bold and courageous . He believes fervently in God.   He is a Primate of a church and a veteran journalist .
Although he  has no wife and no children to call his own but  he is very confident and bold as he believes in the Lord he serves .
  
       A  MAN OF FAITH
Are you looking for a wife, husband or child?. Don't loose hope for God who did it for Abraham, Sarah, Elkanah and many others will do it for you. Just have faith.
 If you call it hope  and  faith you are correct.  In spite  of his old age at 83 , Pa ( Primate) Ayoola Omonigbehin  says he is still hoping in God  to be a family man.
He has been living alone for the past 45years, according to him. 

    



    Pa Omonigbehin  said he did not care  of those that gossip   about him, he said  '' Let them be gossiping  ,what is their business in it?''

 He is always cheerful and jovial  .The veteran journalist is 

always  in his Yoruba traditional  flowing gown [agbada] .He very  popular and known  in many Nigeria  media houses, infact  there  is no media house in Nigeria that Pa ( Primate)  Omonigbehin   is not known for he has worked in some media houses before he started his own paper or magazine, according to him.
 The octogenarian has  worked as a reporter in  the defunct Concord Press in the 80’s. According to him , he was a reporter  on Business Desk and he was the brain behind   the defunct MKO Abiola  Babes (Football Club) .He has also published a magazine which is now defunct. 
   A courageous missionary and a powerful  man of God  who goes about preaching  the gospel and would  call  a spade a spade

According to him he has healed many  who are sick and with infirmity.

Asked to give an example he said ''there is a man with unsound 
mind who  used to stay  at Ladipo Market, Mushin  for a long time ,  I went  there to   pray for him .Few days later I  went back there  and  was told he has left, he has been healed”.
Omonigbehin said, as  he swore to high  heavens .

EVIDENCE OF HIS WORKS

Armed with series of his published stories  and his newspaper cuttings ,he showed  reporters  his works ,  evidence of his worked .Every  afternoon the old man   comes to  The Nation Newspaper’s  office in his flowing  apparel  (agbada ) displaying his long handwritten stories to Editors   to be published. Although age has bent him as he  goes along with a long strand  from one Media   to another.There is no reporter he does not know. Infact a  retired  Editor, Mr. Lekan Otufodunrin confirmed it that the old man was once a senior colleague at  the defunct Concord Press Nigeria Limited, a print media owned by the late MKO Abiola.

 

I AM A NATIVE OF IBADAN but...

Primate Omonigbehin who  has spent many years in Lagos confessed that  he is not a Lagosian as many thought but a native of  Ibadan , his words ''I was born  many years ago  and I am  from Beere area in Ibadan , Oyo State”. 
When asked when last he visited home , he  laughed, shook his head and refused to tell.

On how he feels when he remembers  that he lives alone and without a wife and children , he replied '' It is true that I have been living alone for the past 45 years , I don’t have a wife or child to be called mine but I am not hopeless .If you read the Bible you will read the story of Abraham who  was over 100 years before he had a child,read Genesis 14.Noah was over 600 years , and they  say  as it was in the beginning…so if you know Christ you don’t have to be afraid , what ever comes your way, it is just a matter of time. I am still hoping to have a wife and a child.”

He added that he  proposes to have  three children making reference to the Biblical  Abraham who has a child at  old age.
He rebuked  those speaking ill  or gossiping about him for living alone  the old man said ''what is their business about my lifestyle?Ki lo kan won nibe?”, he rhetorically asked.

On his pastoral job , he said “As a prophet of God I have prayed for  some people with infirmity and they were healed , God is my witness”, he said beating his chest.

  I AM NOT SAFE

  The Primate  said he was once attacked by his neighbors who ganged up against him thus making him sleeping with one eye open for the fear  that  his life is not safe where he lives at 31,Ile -Iwe Bus Stop,Ikotun.  ''they wanted to kill me and God has been rescuing me from the enemies”.

       

Omonigbehin went down memory lane to talk about his active years in the media  and how he established his own media   mentioning  ''Who is who'' in the Industry.