The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, in the company of other top dignitaries, on Tuesday, attended the funeral mass conducted for late Barrister Angela Folarin, wife of Senator Teslim Folarin, representing Oyo Central Senatorial District.
REPORTERS AT LARGE athered that the funeral mass held at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Ilupeju, in Ibadan also had in attendance the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo.
Senator Folarin could not hold his emotion in his tribute to his late wife. The tribute, titled “You Left This World, But Not My Heart”, reads:
I am still in a state of shock and disbelief but who am to question Allah, who knows all and owns all.
I wish this was just one of your many pranks. Wishing you would sudden call me to say it was all a joke.
Angie, Having you in my life, was my dream come true, all lever desired. Words cannot describe the emptiness I have felt since you left me and our
boys alone in this sinful world but I take comfort in the belief that we shall again reunite in aljana.
I miss a million things in you: Your mind, body, advice, encouragement, calls your meals!I miss everything about you. I forever will.
We had dreams we prayed to achieve together. I promise not to let go of those dreams. I shall achieve them for you and our boys.
They say only the good die in their prime. You were certainly the best of the good.
Good night my darling wife, most loyal friend, co-strategist, pillar of support and caring mother
Your Love,
*OLOYE*
REPORTERS AT LARGE recalls that te senator representing Oyo Central Senatorial District in the NationaL Assembly lost his wife, Angela, in the afternoon of Friday, January 29.
It was gathered that Mrs Angela Nwaka Folarin, who died in the United Kingdom, was hale and hearty on Friday morning but she succumbed to the cold hands of death in the afternoon of the same day.