They eagerly shared their love story at the venue of the holy matrimony.
The two lovebirds met way back a the Red Cross Society, where the wife was a junior member and the husband belonged to the senior team.They have been married for 50 years before deciding to renew their vows in a service officiated by their children and attended by friends, families and well wishers.
The bride on their love story
According to Pastor Edith Iloh, who is a former teacher with Ijero Baptist School, Apapa, Lagos her marriage was an answer to prayers. In her words, ”I had prayed to God to give me a man who will love, cherish and pamper me and God gave me somebody who is 11 years older.”
The groom on their love story
Reverened Iloh said, ”As a young man, I was so occupied to the extent that I had no time for women. Her father was a chief and the tradition did not permit her to marry outside her kinsmen but we were able to surmount the obstacle and the union has been a smooth one till date. I married her to love and cherish her. All my concern was to blend her to my vision which I achieved,”
Founder of Soul Winning Chapel, Yaba, Lagos,-Pastor Iloh, who is known for his straight-forward social criticism was elated as he and wife celebrated God’s faithfulness.
The presiding bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission,
TREM, Dr. Mike Okonkwo took the only sermon of the day.
while his Anambra State-born wife is 11 years younger, Vanguard reports.