Betsy Obaseki, wife of Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki, has responded to a remark by Senator Adams Oshiomhole that she has no child.
Gatekeepers News reports that the Governor’s wife, while speaking during a Zoom conference with Edo women in the diaspora, said that children come from God at the appointed time.
Addressing the participants, Mrs. Obaseki said, “My words of comfort to you, women like myself, who have conceived and experienced miscarriages, painful stillbirths and evacuations of babies, who died in our wombs and, as a result, have no children to show for the pain we have endured — is that you are not barren.”
She added, “I dare to call you fruitful. You and I are potential and proud mothers of children that will come in God’s time. Enjoy the life God has given you. Take your mind off your challenge, and before you know it, children will start coming.”
Mrs. Obaseki emphasised that being fruitful is not limited to childbearing, but also about impacting lives and creating positive change in society.
“There is no point in feeling bad. Women can fulfill God’s purpose in many ways beyond motherhood,” she said.
The governor’s wife was responding to a remark by Senator Oshiomhole, who had said that she had no child and was not even ready to adopt.
“I was shocked yesterday to see Mrs Obaseki, the first lady, saying our candidate has no wife. I’m sorry she had to say that because here is a woman who has no child. Between him (sic) and Obaseki, they are childless. They are not even ready to adopt,” Oshiomhole said.
