Speaking with media personality Chude Jideonwu, Obi Cubana explained that his family held an extravagant funeral ceremony for his mother to honour her and commemorate her almost breaking the family pattern.
He said: “In my family, nobody has lived up to 80 years, and I’m saying this for the first time. My father died at 66, my grandmother died at 75, my grandfather died at 78, and it ran through to my mom.
“All my siblings are married and successful, and we were praying for my mother to break the generational jinx and the kind of party we would throw for her, nobody would have ever done it; we even started saving up for that. And she died on December 31, at the age of 79, after celebrating 78.
“So I said, she tried at 79 anda half, so we brought everything together to celebrate her, at least; she tried and almost broke the jink; that was why we went all out for the burial.”
