Seven months after Tunde Asefon left to volunteer in combating Ebola in Sierra Leone, his wife, Winifred, has finally openly lamented revealing the agony she has been through barely one week after their wedding in November last year.
According to Winifred, Tunde walked up to her one day, that was a week after they had wedded, and broke the ice that he had opted to go and help Ebola victims in Liberia, Guinea or Sierra Leone.
The news met her at the time they were preparing for their honeymoon. According to her, they had courted for two years, only for Tunde to leave one week after they exchanged wedding vows. All she could do was to lament. But the determined Tunde was left with no choice but to try to appease his wife saying “it’s better to put others above self”.
The option she was left with was to conclude she wasn’t telling her parents and since she loved him, she was going to help support him to help the country combat the Ebola virus especially based on the on fact that Tunde assured her that everything will be fine.
She further narrated that at a point her parents became highly nosy about why she was living singly whereas she was married. Winifred opened up about her sleepless nights as she was always greeted with bad dreams with Tunde appearing to her and begging her to pray for him. The distressed new wife expressed how scared she was at those particular times. But “I never hesitated to pray” she said.
She asserted when she first told her mother, the mother became more scared than she was. However, when her father got to know about the whole thing, the parents teamed up to support the young couple. This moral and parental support helped them cope till their final reunion in May.
The couple eventually came back together after Tunde had been observed for a period of 21days in Abuja.
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