The First Lady of Edo State, Mrs Betsy Obaseki, has declared that being fruitful is not limited to childbearing but about impacting lives and creating positive change in society.
Betsy in a veiled response to former governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, said that she is a potential and proud mother of children that will come in God’s time.
Betsy, who stated these during a Zoom meeting with Edo women in the diaspora on Saturday, September 7, 2024, said that her contributions to society have gone beyond the biological aspect of motherhood.
She therefore urged childless women not to see themselves as barren but as fruitful, proud, and potential mothers of children that would come in God’s time, stressing that everyone was created by God for a purpose.
Betsy explained that she was yet to have a child because she experienced miscarriages, painful stillbirths, and evacuations of babies who died in her womb.
Senator Adams Oshiomhole at a campaign rally, had described Governor Godwin Obaseki and his wife, Betsy Obaseki as a couple that are unable to bear a child.
Oshiomhole, who made the unguarded comment while reacting to a statement by Betsy, in which she reportedly alleged that the Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Senator Monday Okpebholo did not have a wife, said Obaseki and his wife have refused to adopt any child because they did not love children.
In the words of Oshiomhole; “I was shocked yesterday to see Mrs. Obaseki, the first lady, saying that our candidate has no wife. She is the most, I’m sorry that she has to say that, because here is a woman who has no child. Between him and Obaseki, they have no child, they are childless,” he said.
“They are even not ready to adopt. I mean, I don’t blame, anybody should not have a child. But people who have love for children, they go to motherless home and adopt children.
“They have not adopted. They are both in their 60s. So you married, I don’t know whether it’s a contract or whatever it is, but they have no child,” Oshiomhole said.
But, while addressing Edo women in the Diaspora, Betsy Obaseki said she and the women are potential and proud mothers of children who will come in God’s time thus, should enjoy the life God has given them.
Betsy said; “I dare to call you fruitful. My words of comfort to you, like myself, who have conceived and experienced miscarriages, painful stillbirths, and evacuations of babies who died in our wombs, is this, ‘You are not barren’.
“Take your mind off your challenge, and before you know it, children will start coming. There is no point feeling bad. Women can fulfil God’s purpose in many ways beyond motherhood,” she counseled the women.
