Picture Capturing HID Awolowo’s Last Minutes Surfaces

imageTHE picture, capturing the last minutes of Yeye Oodua, Chief (Mrs.) Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo has surfaced. The picture was posted by one of her granddaughters, Pastor Funke Awolowo.

The picture paraded the matriarch, the granddaughter ( daughter of Segun Awolowo, the first son of the illustrious family who died in an accident in 1964) and Mama’s great grandson.

The picture, which was posted on her Facebook timeline on Wednesday, September 29, 2015, showed Mama a few hours before she passed on, on Saturday, September 19, 2015, at 3.15 p.m, after enjoying a meal of pounded cocoyam and egusi soup.

HID Awolowo, wife of the sage and First Republic Leader of the Opposition and first Premier of Western Region, Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo (1909 – 1987), died 67 days to her 100th birthday.

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