The truth leapt from her lips like the national flag outspread in the breeze. It coloured the air as chrysanthemums colour the woods from antique bronze to soft yellow. Since his eyes held with hers and he felt love course through his veins like a hurricane, Pastor Ituah Ighodalo became a string to be played by the nimble fingers of Ibidunni, his beloved wife. Everybody knows that Ibidun makes the blood rise in Pastor’s cheeks. Ibidun Ajayi-Ighodalo is well loved, unlike most women with her condition.
The wife of the founder of Trinity House, enjoys better fate than most childless women of her ilk. Her in-laws are not breathing down her neck neither do they harass her for her inability to get pregnant. Thus while most other women are despised like the dehydrated sea of infertility and scorned like the post-menopausal part of the earth, Ibidun’s husband and her in-laws accord her utmost loyalty and love. Thus even though she is yet to be gifted with the fruit of the womb, she is under no pressure to get pregnant and her husband is under no pressure to take a second wife.
However, the beautiful couple celebrated their 10th year anniversary last Thursday. It often said, Ituah was made for Ibidun. To her, it probably feels like she had him ordered and delivered to her, to be worshipped and revered. On this note, it may be said that Ituah is Ibidun’s idol. And this is where it gets interesting; Ituah also considers Ibidun a boon from God. The man of God treasures her like a priceless heirloom – this explains his predilection to flaunt her like a sapphire-studded wristwatch or button hole bouquet to the world.
his wife.
