I CAN’T REMARRY WITHOUT CHRISTY ESSIEN-IGBOKWE’S PERMISSION- EDWIN IGBOKWE

I CAN’T REMARRY WITHOUT CHRISTY ESSIEN-IGBOKWE’S PERMISSION- EDWIN IGBOKWE

Mr. Edwin Igbokwe is a former top staff of Punch Newspapers and husband to the late Nigerian Songstress, Christy Essien-Igbokwe, has carried on since his lovely wife passed away, PASCHAL OGE CHIKERO, spoke with him at the Christy Essien-Igbokwe Memorial Foundation about life after her death. Here are the shocking revelations.

Can you tell us how you have been able to adapt since your lovely wife, Christy Essien-Igbokwe left us?

It’s by God’s grace. I don’t know how else to put it because this is somebody I have lived with for over 30 years and for the greater part of our lives. You can imagine when there is a vacuum what do you expect? We were too close so I don’t I know how life will be without her if I am to live another 36 years without her.

I can see that you still wear your marriage ring, does it mean you don’t want to remarry

Well, remarry? I don’t know. This ring will remain there unless there is reason for it, it has to be spiritual and it has to come from her.

You are going to spiritual angle, does it mean that your marriage to her was super natural

Yes! It was because before we got married, she told me everything, how it will all happen. How many kids and their genders. She also told me exactly when she will die; she said it will be at the middle of the year. When she told me initially I took her serious because I know how powerful she is spiritually then I said God I don’t want this woman to pass away just like that. After few years it didn’t occur to me again but when it happened I remembered what she had said.

The spiritual aspect of her life, didn’t it scare you people

I have come to live with it because at a point she told me she is a spirit! And I noticed it from every aspect. I am the one saying it but people won’t believe it but I know.

She said her last birth day was going to be a big one

Big one in terms of charity, she went round, that was the discussion between her and the kids. She went round houses. She told me there wouldn’t be publicity and I said how? She said ok watch and see what will happen that day. That day November 10 was the day they said there will be strike in the morning there was strike but by noon they said the strike was over but she had already gone round to do what she wanted to do. She did so many things that if someone who did not know stay with her , the person will just get scared and run away. Most of the things she did people won’t believe.

Is this Christy Essien-Igbokwe Memorial Foundation the only thing the family is doing to immortalize her

This one the Festival of Love is totally from the Foundation people. They told me about it and I gave them my blessing. I will continue to remember her on a daily basis.

A general description of your wife

She was what people knew her as. She was a spirit! She is somebody I know nobody will replace her.