By Demola Akinyemi, Ilorin .

An Ilorin-based law icon, and immediate past Chairman, Governing Council of Osun State University (UNIOSUN) Professor Yusuf Olaolu Ali SAN, in an emotion-laden voice on Friday said that the scar of the tragic death of his wife Hajia Fawziyah Lola Kehinde 20 years ago, is still there and very fresh in his memories.

Ali spoke at his residence in the Adewole area of Ilorin during a Special prayer he organised to mark the 20th year of the death of his wife.

Recall that Hajia Fawziyah died in a tragic auto crash on the outskirts of Ilorin while embarking on a journey.

Professor Ali, while making his remarks, towards the end of the sermon said his wife was a Special breed of almighty God, adding that the sterling qualities he found in her were only found in his mother who is still alive and living in Ibadan, Oyo state.

The law giant also believed as always that nothing happens to human beings in life without Almighty God knowing about it, and allowing it to happen, stressing that he found solace in that.

“You can attain any height in life, and there’s nothing that can happen to anyone without the permission of Almighty God, that is what is called destiny.

“My wife was to be 47 a week later when she died, her parents are still alive today, my mother is also still alive though my father is late. I thank my wife’s parents and my mother too for their love.

“My wife had some sterling qualities, that I never saw or heard about in any woman except in my mother, she was like an Angel specially made for me.

“When my wife died my mother fainted. Her death is like a wound, it left a scar on me that is still there as I speak.

“Anybody can say anything when this kind of thing, happens, but if it hasn’t happened to you, you won’t know how it feels, he who knows it feels it.”he said.

Giving insights into why he hasn’t remarried after the death of his wife, Yusuf Ali SAN, who cited friends and people who lost their wives and remarried stressed that they have been having unpleasant stories of woes which he can’t contend with.

One of the renowned Islamic clerics in Ilorin, Alfa Lukmon Isale-Koko who offered a sermon at the occasion commended the lawyer, for picking up his life with that of the children and making a success out of it, twenty years after the demise of his wife.

Citing the successes the children have made with the aid and guidance of their father since the demise of the mother, he said that the late wife would be happier in death because it’s not like this in all such cases.

He also said that offering special prayers for the repose of the dead, going to pray for them at the graveside and general offering of prayers for the dead are what Almighty Allah orders the living to be doing for their dead.