“After the internment, I decided to look into the circumstances of her death, I found that part of her 60th birthday anniversary, which was unknown to me, was her operation for her tummy and her shape.”“Before the verdict in Spain, I was unaware of what I came to hear later that I might have caused the death of my wife to sacrifice her for success in my job,” he wrote. “That is how wicked and satanic some Nigerians can be in their rumours and mischief.”
“I instructed that the doctor and the clinic be prosecuted, The lost life cannot be brought back but the successful prosecution would prevent carelessness and loss of life in the future.” Obasanjo wrote on page 240 of Volume 2 of the book.The doctor, according to the former president, was made to pay damages, which was collected by Olu Obasanjo, Stella’s son, and his licence withdrawn for a period of time. Mr. Obasanjo was however full of praises for his wife, whom he married in 1976, four years after the formal dissolution of his first marriage.
He commended her for handling the confrontations she had with his first wife, Remi, with maturity, for accepting children he had with other women as her own, and for campaigning for his release while he was in jail as well as supporting him during his presidency.
Mr. Obasanjo said shortly before her death, Stella, who was Roman Catholic, ensured that her marriage was blessed by the church in a small private ceremony at the Aso Villa conducted by Mathew Kukah, now the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese.
Source: Premium Times
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