I regret not praying with my husband before his trip – Yakowa’s wife

Widow of the late Kaduna State Governor Patrick Yakowa, Amina, said in Kaduna on Sunday that her worst regret was not praying with her husband before he embarked on his last journey to Bayelsa State on Saturday.

 
Amid sobs, Amina narrated how her husband left the house on Saturday without the usual ‘prayer of agreement’ and how they had planned to meet in Abuja for a thanksgiving service for President Goodluck Jonathan’s wife, Patience.
 
She told the congregation at a church service organised for the late governor inside the Sir Kashim Ibrahim Government House that, “Everyday, we normally hold our hands to pray before he steps out of the house to the office. But on Saturday, when he told me he was leaving for Bayelsa State. I just bid him farewell and we said we would meet in Abuja for the thanksgiving ceremony of President Goodluck Jonathan’s wife, Patience. I regret that we could not pray as usual. After that he came down and left for Bayelsa.
 
“We used to wake up every morning to pray. Before yesterday (Saturday), he used to insist that we pray before he would step out of the house for any engagement. On December 23, we would have celebrated our 34th year of marriage but for death.”
 
She said she could not pray for her husband on Saturday because she was down with catarrh.
“We planned to meet in Abuja today for the thanksgiving service of the President’s wife. He (Yakowa) had been a pillar of support to our family,” she added.
 
Yakowa; ex-National Security Adviser, Gen. Andrew Azazi , and four others died when a Naval Augusta 109 Helicopter in which they were travelling crashed in the Nembe-Okoroba in Bayelsa State.
 
They were returning from the burial of Pa Douglas, the father of an aide to Jonathan, Oronto Douglas.
 
Other victims of the crash were Yakowa’s special adviser, Dauda Tsoho; Azazi’s bodyguard, Warrant Officer Mohammed Kamal; and two naval pilots – Commander Muritala Mohammed Daba and Lt. Adeyemi O. Sowole.
 
The traditional ruler of Kagoma, Col Paul Zaka Wyom, said he would never forget his last encounter with the late governor during the just concluded council poll which incidentally took place on Yakowa’s birthday.
 
Wyom said, “It is very difficult to give a full description of the governor. The last time that I saw him was during the Local Government election in the state on December 1, 2012. That was the moment that I will never forget in my life.
 
“He was a seasoned civil servant. He will be remembered for being the first civilian governor of Kaduna from the Southern part of the state and he will also be remembered for his prudent management of state resources.”

– Nigerian Eye

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