Jumoke Orisaguna ex-bread seller's mother-in-law speaks: read what she has to say

The ex bread seller turned model, Jumoke Orisaguna’s story will not be complete without inputs from her immediate family.

In a recent interview with Saturday Tribune, Olajumoke’s mother-in-law, Mrs Janet Orisaguna talks about how she met her sonJUMOKE ORISAGUNA (EX BREAD SELLER) MOTHER IN-LAW SPEAKS: READ WHAT SHE HAS TO SAY and her daughter-in-law’s fame.

How did you receive the news of Olajumoke’s fortune with her pictures in newspapers and on social media?

”She is my son’s wife but I treat her as my own daughter. I felt very happy when I heard the good news”

Since your son, Sunday, married Olajumoke, how would you describe her attitude?

”She has always exhibited a good character. My son met and impregnated her when she was learning hairdressing. My son had phoned me from Lagos and said that if I heard that he impregnated a girl, it was true and he was ready to marry her. In the evening of that day, somebody brought Jumoke and mentioned Sunday as the one who put her in the family way. I said there was no problem and asked her to come and stay with me.

Some weeks later, she brought her luggage and began living with me here. I soon went to meet her parents and told them that we had accepted her as our wife and daughter. Since she gave birth, I have been taking care of her. Sometime last year, she told me that she was going to Lagos to work and I gave her my blessing. She dropped her firstborn for her mother but when the child was sick, my in-law brought her to me, saying that she said he wanted to see her father (Sunday), who was then in Osogbo, where he was learning to make aluminium doors and windows. Sunday came to Iree for the weekend and we took the child to the hospital and thereafter, she was okay. But when Jumoke heard that her child was sick, she said she wanted to come and take her to Lagos and I said there was no need for that. Not quite long afterwards, she came to Iree and started staying here.

                                                Jumoke Orisguna and family

However, in January, this year, she told me that she was going back to Lagos and I asked about her decision to return to Lagos. This time, she took her two children to Lagos but I was not comfortable with it and I gave her husband money to go and bring back the first child so that she could continue her education in Iree. I didn’t want anything to disrupt her education because it might be difficult to find a school for her in Lagos.

She later brought the child back to Iree. About a week after, she went back to Lagos and the next thing we heard in the news is that she has become a model. We did not really take the news seriously at first. Her husband called and told me that he wanted to travel to Lagos because some people took the picture of Jumoke and they were looking for her and eventually found her at the bakery where she usually bought bread in large quantities. He said they asked him to come to Lagos over the matter. I gave him the transport fare and he left for Lagos. When he got to Lagos, Sunday called me and said that it was good news and we were all happy”

What is your advice for Olajumoke now?

”This is a thing of joy for me and Jumoke’s parents. For us in the Orisagunna family, we see it as a big success. Jumoke and her husband, my son, should continue to pray and thank God and realize that it is God who has brought them this far in life.”