ABUJA BOMB BLAST: 27-Year-Old Who Lost Wife & In-laws Recounts How They Fell Victim

Samuel Abolarin, the 27-year-old newly-wed who lost his wife, mother-in-law and brother-in-law in the Abuja bomb blast (read here), has shared how his late wife and in-laws fell victim to the unfortunate incident.

In a touching recount, the now single dad whose one-month-old baby survived the bomb blast in the Kuje area of Abuja, told Punch:

“Our marriage is just a year old. She gave me Ifeoluwa and protected her by sacrificing her own life. I was at home on Airport Road when the incident occurred. On Wednesday, my wife had come to meet me in my office in the Ministry of Finance because I was supposed to submit an industrial training letter on her behalf. She had just finished her National Diploma in Marketing from the Federal Polytechnic, Nasarawa.

She brought the letter on Wednesday and decided to visit her parents since the next day was a public holiday in commemoration of the nation’s 55 independence anniversary. She promised to come back on Saturday. She left and went to her parents’ house in Kuje. On Friday, as they were walking on the roadside, a bomb went off killing my wife, her mother and her brother. My sister-in-law was seriously wounded and, till now, she doesn’t know what happened.

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I never believed that something like this was going to happen. We were busy preparing for my daughter’s birthday that will be coming up on October 22. That was our plan and my wife was telling me our daughter must put on pink clothes, without which, there would be no birthday.

I know that my God will still take us forward. He has started it, I never planned for this and God knows the best.”