Seems wife of the former premier of the old Western Region, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Mrs Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo has prepared for own death long before it came calling.
According to one of her children, Reverend (Mrs) Tola Oyediran, HID will be laid to rest in a gold casket wearing white damask she kept 36 years ago.
Oyediran in an interview with Tribune said “Mama in her unique way had kept a white damask to be laid in her casket whenever she died since the day she stopped her fabric sales business. And if I am not mistaken, I think she stopped selling fabrics around 1979; meaning that since then, she had kept that damask for that purpose. That is her wish and it will be like that.”
HID who died on September 19 will be buried on November 25 in a gold casket. Oyediran revealed that the gold casket would be brought in from United States of America and she will be buried beside her husband inside the Awolowo mausoleum in the compound.
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