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By Adejoro Cornelius Onimisi.
Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints – Psalm 116:15.
Dear Ahmed Victor, the above verse of the Holy Scripture has finally given the strength and courage to pen down these few lines about you. Your demise isn’t only painful but one that came with rude shock, surprise, devastation and disappointment. However, who are we to question your God who after all, created you in the first place?
In the few years of our relationship, you showed me the true meaning of friendship in another dimension. You rejuvenated my understanding of friendship with genuine commitment and sincerity of purpose. You authenticated my thought that friendship is an example of a single soul dwelling in two bodies and this of cause quickly affected my relationship with others in a positive way.
You told me series of stories and I am a witness to certain had situation you had to fight your way through to ensure academic excellence is at its peak and these formed my assurance that you could pull through the sickness that eventually led to your home call. Space and time won’t let me state explicitly many of those stories but how you gained admission into medical school was a herculean task. You were initially admitted into department of medical rehabilitation but stuck to your desire to become a medical doctor and kept writing JAMB until you switched into medicine and graduated magna cum laudi. I cannot forget how you suffered in medical school especially due to financial constraints; even after you graduated, you had to call friends and families to conclude your clearance and all other registrations to wrap up.
What surprises me so much is how you had managed all those “crises” and remained very resourceful and well skilled. Your writing skills and eloquence was superb, your graphics and general computing skills were amazingly excellent. You were my editor in chief, graphic designer, medical consultant and a morale booster to me and many.
Dear Victor, this generation will miss your balanced temperament. You hated iniquity and injustice. You were an apostle of fear of God, good governance and social justice for all. Nothing, nothing could press you down, not even the challenges of life that many youths of today have embraced for excuses. You were a goal getter and very smart at articulating your strategies to get result; always very bold to state your mind in clear terms. All these when one sum them together is what distinguishes and quantify you as a super gentle lion; a rare personality!
Thank you for the many happy and had moments we shared; they stirred up my imagination and still encourages me to move on. Your plan to serve humanity through your intending AVID FOUNDATION and good governance will not suffer the consequence of your demise as there are clear signs that we your good friends are ready to pull out arsenals to carry on with the challenge.
Immediately after your graduation from the University of Nigeria as a medical doctor, you came to stay with me in Abuja and it was another happy moments all through as it gave us opportunity to place some plans and target in the future. You so much appreciated me that you once described me as a “friend with an uncanny sense of direction, erudition and benevolence”, but in all honesty, I didn’t think I deserve many of your usual description of me but if only knew we had only little more time to share here on earth, I would have done more, again, I have learnt a lesson by your death that one must make use of every opportunity to serve as the night might soon come when that opportunity disappears suddenly. Apologies Victor for not doing my best for you, yes, I think I didn’t do my best.
Your love for me and many people I have seen you with was uncommon, agape and real. You loved me so much that you were angered at my choice of giving too much to academic and research with little or no thought about marriage when both can be carried concurrently and then you at some point introduced me to some of your female friends who aren’t engaged just to see that I get hooked up. What other love could I have desired in a friend like you who also opened up all his secretes to me and went on to get me convinced that politics, if played well gives one better opportunity to reach out to many by putting smiles in the faces of the people through purposeful leadership and governance.
There is no doubt that your good heart, benevolence and candor will be greatly missed. Just on new year day, you hinted me of your desire to change your mother’s apartment and suddenly, death came. I never could have imagine this because even in your sick bed, we kept interacting and even told me that you were tired of sitting in on place and I simply replied “you will soon be fine and be off the bed” to which you responded “Amen”.
You were a super lion because you subdued all that a strong man should defeat. Death isn’t the measure of man’s hard work, strength and courage as it is the secret of God which all men must taste.
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God – Romans 3:23, it is with this understanding that I pray that God in his mercy, forgive your short comings, accept your service to him and humanity, accept your soul, grant you eternal rest and heal the heart of your mother, siblings and we your friends.
Dear Ahmed Victor, I am consoled by these words in Romans 14:8 that says: For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.
Adieu my real man.
Adieu my twin brother.
Adieu Dr Ahmed Victor Idowu.
It’s me, the one you call your real man, your twin brother Adejoro Cornelius Onimisi.
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