Contrary to speculations that the Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole’s new wife, Iara Fortes was a top model and a former Miss Cape Verde, the former labour leader said it is untrue.
Speaking at their wedding thanksgiving mass held at the Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Auchi on Sunday, May 17, Oshiomhole said Iara may have the look of a model, but she was never one.
"When
I read newspaper stories and they say that Comrade has married a ‘top
model’ I’m like maybe it’s another person. The lady that God has
directed to my path and heart to marry is not and was not a model. Of
course, she looks beautiful and I understand that is why people assume
that this kind of a lady must be a model but of course, she is a model
in my heart and we hope and pray that we will be models in the heart of
our God and I think that is the most important thing,” he said.
The Governor added that marrying Iara will never be a replacement for his late wife, Clara, who married him when he was nobody.
Oshiomhole
said, "I ask you to please continue to pray for us. It is not easy. I
lost my first wife and it is not possible to replace her. Yes, I have
married another but it is not a replacement. You cannot replace a wife
especially one you married when you were young and you were anonymous.
Nobody knew you from anywhere, you had nothing, no car, no house; now,
that you can never replace but I understand that under the Catholic
doctrine I am entitled to have another wife which is what I am trying to
do."
"Thank you for your prayers, support and
blessings that you have always showered on me and the one you conveyed
this morning on me and my new wife and we ask for more and more prayers
that this marriage will be my last and that God will help us, to unite
us and bond us together with the blood of Jesus”
His
late wife, Clara, died about five years ago from cancer. The Governor
remarried Iara, a Cape Verde national on Friday, May 15, 2005in Edo
State.
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