Husband runaway to Seme as Lagos wife gives birth to quadruplets at the Badagry General Hospital

An apprentice tyre dealer, Cissé Abdullahi, has expressed his gratitude towards the support of the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, and other philanthropists after his wife gave birth to of a set of quadruplets (two boys and two girls).

Abdullahi, 37, a native of Ilorin, who lives at Kumapaji Phase 3, Baale Bus Stop, Oko-Afo in the Olorunda Local Council Development Area of Lagos State, told the News Agency of Nigeria that he had only N3,500 with him when he heard that his wife had given birth to the children.

“He said he was coming from Apapa where he is learning how to sell tyres when he heard the news of his wife’s delivery of the babies at the Badagry General Hospital.

“ He further said though It is a good thing, but he never expected quadruplets because the last scan the wife had indicated that they would be twins.

“When be got home, I decided to escape to Benin Republic because he don’t have money to take care of the quadruplets, on getting to Seme border, he said he was about to cross when he saw his close friend who was surprised to see him around 9pm at the border.

“Abdullahi explained that was forced to tell him why he wanted to travel out of the country, And his friend begged him to me to go back to his family promising that he would assist him, and since he had returned to his wife and children the only assistance he had received was from that his friend.

The new father said the room he and his wife had been living in before the birth of the quadruplets could no longer be enough for the family, and at the moment he is owing the hospital a lot of money because the birth was through Caesarean Section.

 

“I don’t have any means of livelihood. I need the help of well-meaning Nigerians to raise my quadruplets up in a good environment,” said the father of the new Borns.

A NAN correspondent, who visited the Badagry General Hospital, reported that Mrs Sekinat Abdullahi and her quadruplets were in the Maternal, Childcare Centre section.

The Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Olatunde Bakare, said the quadruplets were born between 6.15pm and 6.30pm on Monday. According to him, the quadruplets are in good condition, but were kept in an incubator, he explained the last of the quadruplets was “very small”, adding that medical workers were taking special care of the babies.

Sekinat, 26, a fashion designer, said, “This is my first birth; I never expected four children, but they have come to the world through me, I want to appeal to the Lagos State Government and residents of Badagry to come to our aid because we cannot take care of the quadruplets alone.

“The burden would be too much for my husband alone.”