Activist Joe Okei-Odumakin says she has ‘emerged’ three months after her husband Yinka Odumakin, spokesman of the Yoruba socio-cultural organisation Afenifere, passed on.
Okei-Odumakin stated this in a release titled ‘Yinka Odumakin: Joe Okei Odumakin emerges!’ posted to Facebook on Friday.
“It is actually three months which went by like a breeze! Three months that my Comrade rose to higher realms…Just like a moment! But the wound is still fresh; the pain sharp and his images as clear as if printed in colour,” her statement read.
“The void is not filled; no, not at all! Not on the field, not at home, not anywhere. There is a costly calm where his voice once rang. Where the bell of freedom and justice once rang… there is now a costly calm!
“Three months and our self-imposed retreat lapses. We emerge again into duty! Duty to immortalise this life…our life. Duty to dedicate one life to another.
“Three months! And still counting. Counting unto eternity. But now we emerge. Like Phoenix, we rise!”
She also thanked all who offered her family comfort during the period.
Odumakin, who died on April 2, was buried in Moro, his country home, in Ife North Local Government Area of Osun State.
