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Below is the unedited version of his birthday message to his mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“A Birthday Tribute to My Eternal Mother: Princess Christiana Monisola Ajulo, The Iya Ijo of Christ Anglican Church, Ifira Akoko<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Mama mi,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Today the calendar dares to mark another revolution of the sun around your life, yet time itself bows in humble recognition that some souls are not measured by years but by the eternity they etch into mortal hearts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“You, Princess Christiana Monisola Ajulo, are that rare flame which neither age dims nor mortality quenches. At ninety-one, and still counting in divine grace; you remain the living paradox: fragile in form, yet forged in native intelligence, unyieldingly in the furnace of faith, sacrifice, and sovereign love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“You are not merely \u201cmy mother\u201d in the borrowed tongue; you are Ma\u2019ami: the matripotent force, senior to all, the living Orisa whose procreative power and ceaseless intercession transcend gender and mortality. \u201cOrisa bi Iya ko si,\u201d our ancestors declared, \u201cthere is no deity like Mother\u201d and you have proven it at every dawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“In the sanctuary of Christ Anglican Church, your knees carved altars from wooden pews, your voice turned hymns into ase-filled thunder, your prayers became the spiritual architecture that shielded an entire congregation. You did not lead by command; you led by \u00ccw\u00e0p\u1eb9l\u1eb9; the gentle, perfect character that the Yoruba hold as the highest goal of existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c\u00ccw\u00e0 l\u2019\u1eb9w\u00e0,\u201d they say\u2014Character is beauty. In you, that beauty was gold: \u201cIya ni wura, Baba ni digi.\u201d You carried me nine months in the womb, three years at the breast, and a lifetime in prayer, all while trading, minding the bookshop (TI OLUWA NI ILE!), and raising eight children into Omol\u00fa\u00e0b\u00ed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Philosophically, you are my living Ifa. Before birth, we choose our Or\u00ed\u2014the inner head that determines destiny. Yet a Yoruba mother\u2019s prayer can realign stars. Yours did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Every midnight vigil you kept, every tear you poured at the altar, every sacrifice that fed us when hunger whispered lies, was an invocation: \u201cOri inu mi, m\u00e1 ba t\u2019ode mi je.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“You shaped my Or\u00ed not with words alone but with lived Omol\u00fa\u00e0b\u00ed\u2014integrity, humility, hard work, communal service and supplications to the Almighty God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“You taught me that true existence is participation: in suffering, in redemption, in the quiet miracle of another day granted. Your only lament was that you could not give more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Because of you, I understand that motherhood is the first school of \u00ccw\u00e0. You were my first teacher of character, Rabi of law, tutor of values, my unmoved mover of conscience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Every stand I take for justice in courtrooms and corridors of power, every burden shouldered for the voiceless, carries your signature: the sacred geometry of service you first inscribed in my spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Your prayers remain my armour; your \u00ccw\u00e0p\u1eb9l\u1eb9, my compass; your love, my immortality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I love you, Maami, with a love fiercer than Akoko hills, tenderer than your lullabies, eternal as the covenant between \u00ccy\u00e1 and Or\u00ed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“You are not merely my mother.
You are the living proof that one woman\u2019s consecrated \u00ccw\u00e0 can redeem a lineage, a church, a town, a nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Today, as candles burn and anthems rise, gratitude collides with awe. No tribute can repay Ma\u2019Ami, who made me Omol\u00fa\u00e0b\u00ed, yet silence would be ingratitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Happy Birthday, my Prophetess of the Pew, my undying Ma\u2019ami.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“May Olodumare, who has preserved you through ninety-one years of storm and testimony, grant you many more\u2014each richer in joy, deeper in peace, brighter in the harvest of souls your prayers have won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The world rises in salute.
The Church kneels in thanksgiving.
And I\u2014your grateful son\u2014weep tears of joy that only a true \u00ccy\u00e1 can understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Happy Birthday, my miracle”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u2026for the People, because you first taught me the sacred path of Omol\u00fa\u00e0b\u00ed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n