Last week Nigeria lost
two Great icons in the Nation’s football history.
This week it seems it
has moved to the music industry as this sad news came in this morning.
Reports have emerged
that Popular music producer, Babatunde Okungbowa, popularly known as OJB Jezreel , is dead, three years after a
successful kidney transplant surgery in India.
He was said to have
died early this morning, June 14, in a Lagos hospital, just one month to his
50th birthday.
A family source claimed
that his kidney transplant failed completely since last week. Recall that the
producer was down with kidney related disease, and consequently was flown to
India for a transplant in 2013.
On October 21, the
singer successfully underwent the surgery at the Indian hospital. After the
successful surgery, OJB Jezreel , showered praises on his first wife, Mama J,
for being there for him and donating one of her kidneys to save his life.
While speaking after
his arrival to the country from India, OJB revealed that despite discouragement
from family and friends, his wife still made the crucial donation to save him,
even at the risk of her life.
While describing his
wife for the voluntary donation, OJB had this to say; “She is a wonderful
person because it is one thing if God is telling you to do something but
another to do it.
It takes a lot of
courage to actually do it. Just as Jesus had made the water for Peter to walk
on, Peter needed a lot of courage to take that step and that was what she did
at that dying minute.
Even when the doctors
came to tell her that they would have to cut her all the way to the back and
would have to remove a rib so they could have access to the kidney, she still
agreed to go through it. It takes courage to go through with it, so, I will say
she is a courageous woman.”
Rest in peace brother.
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