In the last couple of days I have been trying to get hold of you but all your phones have been switched off. I was then advised by people around me to use this medium which they said is the fastest track to get to you. I woke up this morning just itching to say these words to you, Yetunde, because I don’t know if I will be here tomorrow. Death can come anytime, especially now that I am over 70 years old.
I am your only father, and I think you should realize that no one else can take my place in your life. Whatever you sow in trenchant words of abuse into the lives of your parents will come knocking at your door a hundred fold when your own twilight comes. If there are stains in the family linen, it is too dangerous to wash them in a public arena; they should be laundered in the privacy of our home. I may have been wrong in times past, I may have erred in the beginning, I may have failed as a father when the pressure of life and ignorance got the best of me. But cursing your parents is cursing your old age that you may not live to see. If you see that old age, the turbulence that will definitely come cannot be prayed away, and when you sleep, you will not sleep well.
You don’t have to beg me for forgiveness for I have forgiven you. Ask God for forgiveness so that the evils that will come as a result of your childishness and immaturity can be prevented. One word is enough for the wise, MY DEAR DAUGHTER YETUNDE. You know I still love you.
Your Daddy OJB
DR Fola OJO is based in America.
This is a satire
*this is deep,forgiving even before the one threw the punch asks for forgiveness!,,,,hmmmmm
hi
ReplyDelete@Galore
This is heart breaking.
ReplyDeleteTo forgive someone that has done you wrong,,is not always easy
ReplyDeleteForgiveness is ''Divine''
You have to have an Encounter with your ''maker'' to forgive anyone......
Forgiveness is ''Spiritual''.....not everyone is ''gifted'' to forgive....but when you have that ''Divine'' encounter with Christ,,,,u learn to forgive
Look JESUS on the crosss of calvary,,,he loooked up,,,and he forgave even those that had Hurt him
@Galore
Morning Cry!
DeleteEvangelist Galore.
Powerful words!
DeleteChocolata
This is so touching! *sobs*
ReplyDeleteI don't see forgiveness in dis write-up ooo.
ReplyDeleteI see anger
And fear (yes, I see d fear of dying alone)
Dia is no justification for cursing ur own child.
It is a good tin, dat MAN is NOT GOD!
Exactly, how can you say you have forgiven and then you still curse the persons old age
DeleteThank God you admitted being wrong, so he is trying to say if you do wrong and your child points it out to you publicly or privately then the child deserves a curse, hell no
What about your sins catching up with you
Now you want to from mr old and start cursing, have you ever come to your kids and apologyz yourself, No
Cus if you have they would not still be so hurt as to disgrace you publicly
God cannot be mocked, if you place a curse on some1 then you yourself is in bondage even in death
This is really not a justification, if you did not ask for forgiveness, and if you are reaping the fruit of your labour
Its however you make your bed that you sleep on it
Mtcheew
Ask God 4 forgivness and ask your kids too, then you forgive and let God
Old age is not a reason to be cursing ppl up nd down, cus there is something like a curseless curse which is void
I think we are misinterpreting the whole thing. From what I understand, something transpired between d man and his daughter, and the daughter(yetunde) abused, cursed him and left him. Now the man is getting old and he wants to reconcile with her but he is also reminding her that whatever she sows is what she'll reap. He may have been wrong in the past or may have failed as a father but that doesn't mean she should curse him because cursing ur parents is like cursing your old age that you may not live to see.
DeleteThe man has forgiven her but he wants her to also ask God for forgiveness and he wants her to know he still loves her.
Push up , if this was an exam I'll score u an A.
DeleteCommon sense is extinct, I shiver at d level of ignorance
Yetunde and Iyabo mean the same thing in Yoruba.. I see this as a letter from OBJ to his daughter. I still insist, washing your father's dirty linen in public is automatically a curse.
ReplyDeleteOluyomi please dont talk what you dont know. Do you know how it feels to be mistreated by a parent? Bible says obey your mother and father that same chapter says parents do not provoke your children. Parents are not God.
DeleteI had to reply your comment because i speak from experience of not having a father & grew up in a single parent home with a mother that only God will judge her. I am an only child i told my mum many times all the wrongs she put me through but she did not listen she continued. I reported her to a few of her friends to talk to her she shouted neva tell my business to my friends i kept silent. Finally i cut her off then she went around telling pple how innocent she is and she hasnt done anything wrong. Pple called me i told them my side they were shocked at what i faced. So if my mother cursed me the curse no go reach me because i honored her but she provoked me. i have vowed i will see her again on her death bed. The most painful part is noone was there wen i was facing it but in the future pple will be begging for her like their life depend on it. The reason i cut my mum off is because she made some jazz statement that you just dont say to your child.
So please yomi dont talk what you dont know because you have never been in the same shoes.
Dear anony.
DeleteLemme tell u smthg, 1 of d hardest tin to be in life is to be a single parent, to sigle handedly take up the duty of 2 ppl.
No woman, esp black woman in her rite senses,plans to be a single parent. U meet a very handsome man 2day, u fall inlove wit him helplessly n hopelessly, unfortunately u get preg, but e denies it, cos e is also a struggling man.
D brave woman tells hersef I can do dis, I wld bear dis baby n cater for it against all odds.
My dear cut ur moda som slacks, she ddnt abort u, or abandon u. Every1 mks mistakes. If God forbid u bcom terminally ill (wich wld nt apen IJN), wu wld u run to?
Wateva ur mum offences are I pray God give u d hrt to forgive her.
Anony kpele oo.
Anonymous10:27, nobody is saying, u should not confront your parents when they''ve mistreated u but u shouldn't involve the whole world like writing a letter in a newspaper that could be read all over the world so that d whole world will know everything about your family. There are ways to deal with such issues without making it that public. I was also a neglected child and had to put myself through school and I had both parents then but I wouldn't go beyond my extended family to resolve those issues.
Delete@ pink shell she dint abort me cuz she was told if she did she would die. She n my father were childhood sweetheart he changed n left her preggers. She took out all his sins on me is that fair? Was i there when they were fucking?
DeletePink shell dont forget you only know 1% of the story the 99% is shocking.
Hmmmmn!
DeleteNa wa ooo,
What can I say agen anony.
Eleyi so si mi lenu, o bu iyo si.
Life is too short, to hold a grudge ooo.
U are still very angry, but plz tink dis over n try mk peace wit her.
Later now some people will say don't abort, see this persons story now, if mother has aborted her she won't have come to this world to experience so much pain.moral of te story think very well before bringing a child to this world.
Delete@pheobe i have learnt there is no glory without a story......whateva i faced and i am facing now is my testimony bible says the pain we feel now is nothing compared to the joy coming.
DeleteIs all good na my cross to bare but i tank God cuz since i cut my mum n her fam off i have MENTAL PEACE.
So so deep.
ReplyDeleteWoow nice piece
ReplyDeleteAlright buh to who,well guess she knows her self. And thanks for forgiving her. Young lady go and ask for forgiveness
ReplyDeleteWow! This is really deep.
ReplyDeleteWhat was the case? Was it featured here???
Was it the pastor/daughter brawl over cheating allegation?
Father hope you didn't molest daughter???
Oh dear! Forgiveness! Forgiveness!! Life is too short. "Had I know" is a terrible lamentation.
Dear daughter pls forgive your father....whatever the case is.
Sigh + na wa!
This was written as satire by a writer in response to lyabo's letter to her dad, Obasanjo. Iyabo means Yetunde in yoruba. OJB is a play on OBJ, Obasanjo.
DeleteI don't understand this, if u trully forgive why still place curses on her? Hian!! Lemme take my own seat oh!
ReplyDeletePassing by....Yetunde,pls forgive and forget thou some parents are so annoying..
ReplyDeleteMy Dear children, Gbenga and Iyabo, please come home, I've 4given u all.
ReplyDeleteStella, I beg to disagree. How can you call this deep and FORGIVING when it is peppered with curses? No be this kin thin dem dey call forgiveness mbok.
ReplyDeleteI knew it had to be a satire right from the start, I was just waiting for Stella to say 'a blog reader sent this in' that would have bn my last moment on this blog! (Lool, thank God she didn't) *phew!
ReplyDeleteLovely piece though!
Heavy Sigh.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm! Yetunde fasten your seat belt, sit up. Buckle up, wear your helmet..... In short very gallant. Be very careful. I totally can relate to this. All I can tell you is, no matter what your father does, he remains your father and there are blessings that come with being obedient and loving your parents unconditionally. As long as he didn't rape you or put you in harms way on purpose, hmmmmm *pulls yetundes ear* Yetunde!!!! Sit up.
ReplyDeleteWow! If the daughter knows what's good for her she should ask God for forgiveness immediately and quickly reconcile with her father. Meanwhile hope this letter is not from JBO to Obayi
ReplyDeleteLol obj to iyabo
DeleteHhmmmmmmnnnnnn i wonder what the father may have done to warrant his daughter abusing him.
ReplyDeleteHe has indirectly cursed the daughter and still saying he has forgiven her
Abeg e get as e be.
Youths obey ur parents. We're so wild dez days nt mindn d curse of our parents cn hunt us for life. God pls touch yetunde to go bk home
ReplyDeleteAnd parents do not provoke ur children. Collosians 3; 21
DeleteA man who doesn't takia of his family is worse than an infidel. 1thimothy 5;8
The bible is not a biased book. Even God understnds that blood runs tru our veins.
Yetunde d ball is in ur court speak up or forever hold ur silence.
ReplyDeleteHmmm... Yetty u r forgiven
ReplyDeleteForgiving even when the person hasn't asked for forgiveness, really hard.
ReplyDeleteI'll quote the second coming again
ReplyDeleteTurning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds....................
Confused.
ReplyDeleteWe dont really know what yetunde or her dad did wrong, so I can't judge...
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of father curses the daughter? What kind of hypocrisy is this? Saying on one hand I forgive you for cursing me out on the other hand cursing the daughter not live to see her old age.
ReplyDeleteGot news for you, I will pray that God let's her grow old and have a peaceful life, she won't make the kind of mistakes that make a daughter curse her parents.
Which kin forgiveness be this? What did yetunde do?
ReplyDeleteFrom Obasanjo to Iyabo.
ReplyDeleteyou people are missing it,this is a satire from iyabo obasanjos letter to her father.the writer is writing like obasanjo!
ReplyDeleteTell them stella! A satire is a satire is a satire...
DeleteStella na now I believ say
DeleteIf a black person stay obodo oyinbo too long u go dey get dia mentality.
Are u saying dis cannot com in2 play in reality.
U tink the ppl wu commented above u don't no it is an ordinary write up?
My dear wakeup and smell d coffee. Dis is not uncommon esp in d yoruba setting.
Oh ok..I understnd now
ReplyDeleteThank God no be exam.
ReplyDeleteSee mass F9!
Choi. Lol
Hahahahahahahaha! With leg for up!
DeleteThe father is very stupid...all i can persieve is him raining curses on the daughter in this write up..no wonder she ain't talking to him...oloriburuku father
ReplyDeleteWow now I am touched! Satire indeed stella.
ReplyDeleteVisit www.ocbvibez.blogspot.com
@STELLA I COULD EASILY RELATE WITH IT ...HMMMMM THE WRITER IS SO RIGHT YOU DONT DO THAT KIND OF THING IN PUBLIC...WELL I PRAY OBJ FORGIVE HER..
ReplyDeleteHmmmm.... may God not let us do things as parents that will make our children curse us. parents usually don't like talking about the "provoke not your children" part.
ReplyDeleteOkay, I understand now. Thanks SDK for clarifying mataz. I be don finish that papa. Chei! I don dey dull o. TDW u should av figured out the OJB thingy. Ewo! old age, hmmmmmm.
ReplyDeleteam speechless
ReplyDeleteI feel this man has not forgiven who ever it is i see curses in this letter. Parents don't curse your children no matter what they do please.
ReplyDeleteOluyomi; touche.
ReplyDeleteoh pls! my dad abandoned my mum and i before i was born, never contributed one kobo to my up bringin,i have seen him only twice in my life...then he had money and my mum had nobody, her mum died from d shock of my dad leaving my mum, today my mum is a respected woman in nigeria and my dad called her a few days ago to beg for money that his land lord wants to throw him and his family out...funny enough my mum still wants to give him but i have told her not to..d stupid man had d guts to tell my mum he prays for me everyday...hahahaha....i never really thought about d man all my life..i always saw my mum as my dad and my mum. i dint even need to curse him, he cursed himself. today i am currently in d uk, finished my masters. to think my mum started from selling fish and making phone calls...i thankGod i lived to see d day that man came to beg for my money...just goes to show that God is not asleep...he sees everything...so no need to curse out your parents...cuz if they need to be cursed, God will do it for you.
ReplyDeleteI'm disappointed that a lot of people on this blog are like those uninformed kids on that popular blog.Once the word satire came up it should have triggered the obj and daughter's letter saga.Interesting stories on blogs shouldn't be about toto,sex,dumb(so called real life)stories.Even u Bloglord joined the bandwagon,thats shocking!
ReplyDeleteI know!
DeleteI was dumbfounded as I scrolled to see the replies. Oluyomi was the only one that got it. Even juliet abi na Julie with all her antics failed woefully.
A lot of oversabi (s) with no sense of comprehension.
#Amazeballs
Satire that!
Tohtoh rocks
DeletePrick rules
Sex heals
WtF does satire do
It's because three quarters of the Nigerian youth are dundees that don't think. They are sheep and that's why the leaders get away with anything.
Deletebloglord is an olodo what what it posts. silly ode
ReplyDeleteWith due respect ma'am your blog visitors are a bunch of educated ignoramus
ReplyDeleteLol stella of Life!breakdown your words in layman's language expect its sex related 'satire', a good number of blog visitors just love to comment either they understand or not, that's why some spew junks most times.
ReplyDeleteOn the write-up,I maintain my stand, there isn't moral justification for a child to disrespect her parents privately not to of publicly haba,is there any Holy Book or culture that doesn't lay emphasis on honouring ones parents?God help us all,amina.
Lol stella of Life!breakdown your words in layman's language expect its sex related 'satire', a good number of blog visitors just love to comment either they understand or not, that's why some spew junks most times.
ReplyDeleteOn the write-up,I maintain my stand, there isn't moral justification for a child to disrespect her parents privately not to of publicly haba,is there any Holy Book or culture that doesn't lay emphasis on honouring ones parents?God help us all,amina.
ode ni awon pple yi sha, lol. una for go online dictionary / google see wetin satire mean jor.
ReplyDeletenow anonymous u welcome to give us the remaining 99% of the shocking story to learn more, otherwise take several seats and get over what your mama did to u.
few yrs ago in hungary, a father was found to have abducted his daughter and hid her away for 24years where she birthed 7 children for her dad and never saw sunlight in all those years.
ehen, the "akande" man in new jersey nko that sodomized his daughters for close to 10yrs in front of their biological mother nko, they have all moved on.
na jazz ur mama do u, did she give u to men to rape, mbok abi she rape you herself, abi she carry you enter witchcraft ni.
P.S am not saying above bizarre stories are fantastic, am just saying learn to forgive and move the "hell" on. sorry i don't mean to sound harsh though, everyone has rough times with their parents, so far she didn't kill u for rituals, she also couldn't have been able to deal with all that stress and was only transferring aggresion
stella bikonu post my comment, imagine annoy saying she's waiting for her mama on death bed, what if your enemy dies before ur mama, stop playing God
Ode ni e!
DeleteO ni lakaye rara.
Infact a person born wit Down syndrome beta pass u.
U be confirm bolo.
Wit d whole epistle wey u write.
I wander how it wld help a person who is hurting badly.
All in d name say u sef wan comment at all cost.
Ekabo ati ri yin.
Osi oda nile kpako.
You have neva walked a min in my shoes so dont talk what you dont know. The spiritual battles i face from my mum & her sisters will scare u. Like i said parents are not God it is a privilege to have a child. Children are gifts from God you dont miss treat them because you came into this world before them.
DeleteI will not die like they killed my father & i will not walk in darkness like my mum and her family. I am a child of light.
Amen dear. You will not die but will live to see the Lord's goodness in the land of the living. Some people just talk even when they have no clue. Stop commenting and giving out more information. You don't owe anyone any explanation.
DeleteJust remain steadfast in the Lord and He will protect you for chosing Him over the powers of darkness.
If u face spiritual battles from your mum, you need to be separated from her. However, that doesn't stop you from forgiving her or letting go of your bitterness.
DeleteMadam pink shell your body too dey hot, quick to comment, quick to do voltron yet you always misfire. What did that person say that is so wrong. Based on the 1% story, I think that was good advice.
These are the future of Nigeria? We are screwed! Y'all don't know what a Satire means and you couldn't be bothered to look it up in a dictionary or online before throwing silly comments about? Sigh. What a pity.
ReplyDeleteI have this aunt that treated her daughter as if she is the cause of all her problems..,it was soo bad dt Pple assumed that the girl is not her daughter..one day, in tears, dis little girl cursed her mother dt she will be the only child she will ever have.,this thing happened over 22yrs ago,my aunt got married 4 ova 13yrs nw, no miscarriage not to talk of child..the daughter is married now wit her own child..MORAL LESSON:its not only parents dt can curse deir children,it work both ways but we shuld learn to 4give, cos wen you 4give you are free 4rm bondage...
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