Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Thursday, revealed that his mother carried his pregnancy for 12 months before his birth by Mrs Benice Obasanjo.
The former president attributed the delay in his birth to the influence of some witches and wizards who gave his mother a tough time before God’s intervention.
According to a statement issued in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital by his media assistant, Kehinde Akinyemi, the former president gave the assertion during a drama presentation titled “Aremu omo Asabi” held, to mark 66 years remembrance of his late mother, Bernice Obasanjo.
The drama was held on Wednesday at the main auditorium of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, Ogun State capital.
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo had lamented that it was unfortunate that his mother never lived to see how great God had been so marvellously helped him to become in life and of course, enjoy the fruits of her hard labour.
He said that though his mother gave birth to nine children, only two of them, himself and his sister, survived.
“I was told I was in my mother’s womb for 12 months, and since I was born, I have not been left for once. She had nine children, but two of us survived, myself and my sister,” he said.
“I was the only one who went to school because my father’s belief was that no matter how educated a female child is, she would end up in the kitchen.”
The former president, however, at the programme, promised to support the troupe’s quest to present the longest open drama to clinch a Guinness Book of Record.
