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On the 23th and 24th July, 2025, the Isibors, Dr Andrew Ekinadese Isibor, from Urhonigbe, Bini, in Edo State and Prof (Mrs) Ekata Rosemary Isibor, gave their daughter, Princess Osasere Isibor, out in marriage.
The marriage ceremony which began on July 23th with a traditional ceremony at the event hall of the St Dominic Catholic Church, Yaba, was concluded on Thursday, 24th July, 2025, with the solemnization mass Led by Fr. Collins Akhigbe (OP) at the same St Dominic to tie the knot of marriage, while the reception remain same hall in the church.
In the end, Chucks Desmond Chukwuneta Agbapu, the son of Apostle Emmanuel Agbatu went home with his beautiful damsel.
Speaking with journalists, Dr Andrew Isibor, father of the bride who was full of joy said. “I feel happy, thank God for today. I never expected that I would be here today, many things have passed under the bridge, that you begin to think whether you may be able to get yourself to a certain stage, and God is always there, and He takes you pass there. So to be here to witness my daughter’s wedding, I lack the proper word to express how I feel.”
Responding to a question on what kind of man he had expected from his daughter, and if Desmond actually met that expectation, he said, “Actually I have always believed that what works for my daughter works for me. When they were growing up, I told them, choose carefully because anyone you bring I will accept, I don’t discriminate. Desmond is from a different part of the country and the same as my daughter. All my children I made sure I took them through school because that is almost what I owe them: Education, anywhere you want to get to.
“Now when you are in the university or higher institution, you meet so many people, when you are in other parts of the world, you meet so many people, so it would be difficult for you to now decide what kind of man your daughter would have.
“I cannot, because I am Benin, and I say, my daughter must go and bring a Benin man, she knows what is good for her. So I allow them that free hand to get whoever they want to get.
“So when she came with Desmond, I asked her, are you okay with him? And once she said she is okay, I gave my blessing to them, and once I give my blessing, I know God in his infinite mercy will keep them and lift them to higher level,” Dr Isibor stated.
Still on the importance of allowing children to make the choice of whom to marry by themselves he stated, “You know I married their mother long time ago, we are still here, no matter what, I don’t stay in the country, but she is here, I come every time, and we are still here today. So if my dad or her dad has said, no, you can’t marry, how would I have been able to have these kind of beautiful children? Never can say, maybe, we would have divorced several years ago, so that is it, when you choose a partner, you have chosen,” he said.
Dr Isibor advised other parents, “They should give their children the free hand to make their choices.”
Prof (Mrs) Ekata Rosemary Isibor (from Idumebo, Ekpoma, Edo State) an Esan woman is the mother of the bride, she said “Today is my eldest daughter’s traditional marriage. She is being given out in marriage by her father. Dr Andrew Ekinadese.”
Expressing her joy over the event of the day, she stated, “I can’t describe my joy, because the joy of every parent is that after you have taken care of your children right from the womb, you have nurtured them, KG, Nursery, Primary, Secondary, University and they did not become miscreants, they did not bring disgrace, there are certain words I don’t want to use, like children you are not proud of. But my daughter is a dentist, a doctor at the general hospital.”
Showing appreciation to her glamorously dressed guests, she said, “I wish to tell them, nurture your children, don’t look the other way, don’t fight them, let them be your best friends, what I am experiencing today is joy that knows no bounds, the joy that the God of Elijah Babatunde Ayodele has put into me, the joy that no money can buy, the joy I cannot even explain.
“If you look round, you would see that my sisters, my brothers, INRI children, INRI sons and daughters, Celestians, CAC, just name people in the society, they are all here just for one person, Dr Osasere Princess, my daughter, they came to honour her. I can’t describe my joy. This is what every parent expects, and I am happy God chose me as one of His to enjoy today. It has always been my prayer that I witness the marriage of all my children, and today God made it possible, it can only be God,” Prof Isibor added.
Speaking about the wedding ceremony, she said, “Thursday is the white wedding at St Dominic Catholic Church, this same venue, after the church we all come back here to celebrate. So tomorrow is the grand finale, whereby they will be joined by the Catholic priest, Fr. Collins Akhigbe, after that we come here again to this hall to enjoy ourselves and after that, Dr Desmond Agbapu that won my daughter’s heart, will go with her and my daughter will become Agbapu.
“My daughter and her husband are all doctors, they are both Dentists, Desmond Chukwuneta, we all call him Chucks Agbapu, from Nnewi, Anambra State,” Prof stated.
She spoke of the lesson to be derived from the intertribal marriage as Chucks and his wife came from different parts of the country. “It is a mix marriage, the South South and the South East have come together to celebrate their children.
“You see, we have always been one but it is the politicians that are dividing us.
“We have always been one, if I tell you that my grandmother was from Onitsha, the mother that gave birth to that my grandmother was from Kokori in Delta, you see. My mother that gave birth to me is Benin. My father is Esan, but you people call it Ishan, it is not Ishan , it is Esan, it is the British people who couldn’t pronounce Esan and they say Ishan, so I am from Ekpoma,” she added.
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