Ondo first lady, Betty Akeredolu pays an unscheduled visit to MATO in Port Harcourt, describes MATO as a forthright and quintessential personality that can be trusted with position of responsibility
_…Ondo First Lady is a good mother who can mother all her children – MATO_
It was a moment of excitement and joy in the Port Harcourt on Thursday as the Ondo First Lady, Her Excellency, Arabinrin Betty Akeredolu paid an unscheduled visit to Okeigbo-born business mogul and politician, Hon Mathew Oyerinmade popularly called MATO.
It was gathered that the wife of the Governor and her entourage dropped at MATO’s residence in Port Harcourt, Rivers State in an unscheduled visit.
While welcoming the First Lady and her team, MATO expressed surprise at the unscheduled visit of the first lady and her team to his residence.
In his words, MATO described the First Lady visitation as an excellent honour of the highest order and equally described the First Lady as “a mother who can mother her children”. He thanked the First Lady profusely for the pleasant surprise visit.
According to him, “let me on behalf of myself, my dear wife and Children thank Your Excellency for this great honour and visitation to my personal house, we will ever cherish this moment. Let me also thank you for the yeoman’s job you are doing in touching lives positively in our dear State, your intervention using the instrumentality of your NGO’s “BRECAN ,BEMORE FOWOSO etc are well felt by the people, history will always be kind to you ma.
Welcoming specially the First lady on the visit, Mrs Angela Nkem Oyerinmade, wife of Hon Matthew Oyerinmade( MATO) eulogised the leadership and compassionate traits embedded in the First Lady and stated that the good people of Ondo State, especially, the women folks will not forget her immeasurable contributions to the fight against breast cancer as her NGO is doing great in this regard to create awareness among women all over the state and beyond.
In her remark, The first lady thanked MATO and his wife for the hospitality and love shown to her and her entourage within a very short notice.
She describe MATO as a forthright and quintessential personality that can be trusted anytime with positions of responsibility.
“Let me thank you and your dear wife for the love shown to me and my team despite the unscheduled nature of this visit.
We are most delighted and happy for all you do.
With people like you, the society will be a better place to live
We shall continue to do our best within and outside Government to touch peoples lives positively, its in our consciousness that the best work anyone can do is to work for humanity and this we shall continue to do as long as we live” she said.