Hours After Wife’s Death, Pastor Ituah Ighodalo Says Life Goes On

Pastor Ituah Ighodalo, the Senior Pastor at The Trinity Church, on Sunday, both, at once, shocked and comforted many people. In his first public reaction to the sudden death of his wife, Ibidunni, the Pastor said “Life Goes On”

Ibidunni, former Miss Lux, boss of Elizabeth R, an Event’s planning company, accomplished  businesswoman, and founder of the Ibidun Ighodalo Foundation, died in PH, where he had gone to work, of, allegedly, of cardiac arrest, on June 14.

Considering how close she and her Pastor-Husband were, everybody feared for him.

But a few hours later, he surprised many when he appeared in his Church to officiate at a funeral service. It was a funeral service for one of the grandsons of billionaire Razak Okoya’s son,  24 year old Ayodeji Modupe          Johnson, whose mother is Okoya’s favourite daughter, Biola.

The theme of the funeral sermon was Life.

Formally announcing his wife’s death, without mentioning her name,  Pastor Ighodalo said the news of his wife’s death shattered his entire life, but that life must go on.

Wearing a black suit, which matched his sombre and sober looks, he said, in a subdued voice:

“Most of you know  that I shouldn’t be here. At 2.00am, I received a call that shattered my entire  life. But life must go on.

“We do not have control over most things in life, where you were born, which womb you came from, and your race.

” Life is a big mystery. No one even as  wise as  Solomon can tell you they understand life.

“This time yesterday, if anyone had told me this is how it will be, I would have said it is impossible. Life is nothing.”

While many admired him, and marvelled at his courage to officiate at a funeral service  hours after the sudden  passing of his wife, others  say he shouldn’t have. Asked one woman after watching the video of the funeral service: “Is he the only Pastor in the Church? He is called the Senior Pastor, which means there must be, at least, one other Pastor. Must  he officiate? It does not show respect for the dead if you ask me. But he is a Pastor, he knows best.

In a statement, on Sunday, announcing the sad passing of Ibidun, her husband’s elder brother, Asue Ighodalo, asked for privacy on behalf of the Ighodalo and Ajayi families , to mourn their “beloved wife and daughter”. Ibidunni’s maiden surname was Ajayi.