Explaining the cause of her death, her second son, Claudius Akinwade Peter-Thomas, said, “Mummy had been struggling with her health, she had cancer of the breast, diabetes and was also hypertensive.”
According to Claudius, despite all these, Bukky was able to manage herself.
“There aren’t enough words to quantify Mama. She was an independent woman who shouldered the responsibility of raising three lions (sons) without raising her brows. I see her as a lioness. She was also able to combine and manage her situation (singlemotherhood) and her career. She was a good planner.
“A good planner she was. Despite being in the public glare, she ensured her private life remained private. Many of my friends didn’t know I was the (child) of the popular actress. This is not because she wasn’t proud of her children, but because she was able to draw the line between her career and her family. People relate with me as Raz CPT and not the daughter of a celebrity, so to say.”
Bukky Ajayi’s last child, Kunle Fawole said, “I and mama were in the living room with some of my friends when I noticed that her heart wasn’t moving, I mean like she stopped breathing. Immediately, I checked her pulse and called my elder brothers.
We felt her pulse and heartbeat, did everything possible. But alas, she has passed on. And that was at about 11:23 am on Wednesday. She was a bit ill before this happened. She had been ill for a number of years now. She had stroke some couple of years back. There was a time she also had cerebral malaria. She became diabetic, hypertensive and also suffered breast cancer before now.”
While her first son, Alfred Oluwole Shoga, said “At 60, my mother still gives me money each time I visit her and I will say, `Mum I’m suppose to give you money’ and she will say I should use it for transportation.”
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