My Wife Didn’t Die Of COVID-19 – Pastor Ituah Ighodalo |The Source

By Adesina Soyooye

Former Beauty Queen, business woman, philanthropist, high profile event handler, and Pastor, Mrs Ibidunni, did not die of the pandemic COVID-19.

Her heartbroken husband, and Senior Pastor of Trinity House, Ituah Ighodalo, revealed this in an interview with the Sunday Punch.

Ibidunni’s sudden death  on 20th June, of alleged cardiac arrest, in a Port Harcourt Hotel, shocked Nigerians.

She was in PH where he was engaged in setting-up Isolation Centres in the city, and Yenogoa, Bayelsa state, for victims of COVID-19, when she suddenly died at about 2.00am.

The muted, but strong, speculation was that she died of the Virus. But her husband has debunked that line of thought.

Speaking briefly on the lives and times of his wife, and how he has coped with their two children, a daughter and a son, aged eight and two and a half years, since her passing, Pastor Ighodalo said he feels that half of him died with his wife, adding that she  died in active service, doing what she loved, and serving humanity.

He said: “My wife died in active service amid COVID-19. She was setting up Isolation Centres all over the country when this unfortunate incident happened.

“She didn’t die of COVID-19, but she died serving the country, to provide help and succour for people. It was a risky thing for her to do, but that was Ibidunni for you. She went out of her way to take risks and to help other people.”

Ibidunni who was, also, the founder of the Ibidunni Ighodalo Foundation, died at the age of 39 years.