Entertainment & SocietyEx-Beauty Queen, Helen-Prest Ajayi, Finally Buries Husband 10 Months After

Ex-Beauty Queen, Helen-Prest Ajayi, Finally Buries Husband 10 Months After

BEVERLY HILLS, February 14, (THEWILL) – Ten months after his death, friends and associates of Dr Tosin Ajayi, the late Managing Director of First Foundation Medical Centre, Lagos and husband of ex-beauty queen, Helen Prest-Ajayi, were kept wondering as to why it was taking too long to bid him a final farewell.

But all that worrying came to an end as the beauty queen finally buried her late husband on Thursday, after going through one of the most tumultuous times of her life, battling her late husband’s five children from his first wife, Yemisi, who happens to be the younger sister to the minister of state for health, Olorunnimbe Mamora, for months on end over burial plans.

Yemisi and Dr Ajayi parted ways 36years ago, and 11years before he met Helen, with whom he was with for 25years till his death.

Dr Tosin Ajayi died on April 26 2020 at the St Nicholas hospital, after battling kidney problem. His burial was delayed this long because his five older children from his first wife had been at loggerheads with Helen over the circumstances surrounding his death. They alleged that Helen, was in the best position to tell what really killed their father besides what the public knows.

The children promptly got the police involved. The Police decided to conduct further investigation on the matter and requested that an autopsy be conducted on the deceased, the result of which revealed that he died of natural cause, as no foul play was found.

On account of the autopsy done, Dr Ajayi’s children got another death certificate issued to them, with the address of the deceased captured as the residential address of his first wife. This contradicted the Ikoyi home address where he lived and shared with Helen Prest-Ajayi and which they had admitted to as being his residence in their petition to the police.

The children also demanded that Helen hand over their father’s corpse to them to bury as well as his original death certificate, a request she refused to heed, since they were planning to exclude her from the burial.

They also insisted that his burial be officiated at their mother’s church, SherperdHill Baptist Church, Lagos, even though the deceased had said he would want his burial conducted by the pastor of one of the RCCG parishes on the island, where he worshipped before his death.

These requests were refused by Helen, as her late husband didn’t attend the church of their choice. In fact when he was alive, Dr Ajayi blatantly refused to attend the weddings of two of his daughters at the church for reasons best known to him.

After several meetings held between Dr Ajayi’s children and Helen on the behest of some prominent people in Lagos, the impasse was finally resolved as the late Ajayi was honorably buried by his wife, Helen on Thursday February 11th 2021.

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