In the hitherto enviable and exotic world of Lucky Igbinedion, the former governor of Edo State, the sky is no longer a silvery and opalescent delight; it is now pitch black and brackish. And sadly, it would take almost forever for things to return to normalcy for Lucky and family.
Early hours of today, Saturday, his second son, Osaretin, was involved in a ghastly motor accident in Texas, United States of America. Alas, details of his death are still sketchy, leaving his parents in deep mourning because he was an otherwise lively and lovable young man, same with his friends and acquaintances whose outpouring of deep-seated grief has been heart-wrenching.
It was a devastating and distasteful death that has plunged the entire Igbinedion clan into a pall of gloom. Everybody with the Igbinedion suffix, friends, associates and relatives of Lucky particularly have been unanimous in their grief. What was even more befuddling was that Osaretin was planing to come to Nigeria when death sneaked in, mowing him down in his prime.
If Eki, his mother, indeed, had one chance to make a wish, she would probably wish the death of Osaretin was mere nightmare. Watching her bemoan her fate, you could feel and touch her grief and like someone who has signed out on laughter, the sounds and melody of tumbrels and harps for her have stopped making any meaning for now.