Nigerian Senator, Mao Ohuabunwa, who represented Abia North in the eighth Senate, has lost his wife, Lady Nimi Ohuabunwa, months after celebrating her birthday.
It was learnt that the deceased, a lawyer, who was battling a prolonged ailment had died in an Abuja hospital on Saturday, July 22.
Announcing her death, the Head of the Ohuabunwa clan, and former president of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) Sam Ohuabunwa on Monday noted that Nimi’s death threw the entire Ohuabunwa dynasty into mourning.
The statement reads: “With a deep heart of pain and total submission to the will of God, the entire Ohuabunwa dynasty announces the passing on to glory of Lady Barr. Nimi Faith Ohuabunwa the wife of Senator Mao Ohuabunwa whose death occurred on the 22nd July, 2023. May her gentle soul rest in peace.”
In a goodwill message delivered during his wife’s last birthday on March 23, 2023, Ohuabunwa spoke glowingly about her, stressing how she had been “a true companion and great source of inspiration” to him.
He also described her as a “priceless jewel, best companion, counsellor and motivator.”
Ohuabunwa, a former leader of the ECOWAS Parliament, had also described her as “a woman of excellence, caring wife and mother with a milk of human kindness.”
