Former Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has recounted how his wife, Dolapo, began experiencing frequent headaches while maintaining a daily habit of drinking freshly squeezed orange juice. Mr Osinbajo shared the experience while speaking about food preservation and the use of chemicals by some farmers and traders to preserve or artificially ripen fruits and vegetables. He spoke at the Open Day for Gardeners’ Seminar in Lagos on 28 August.
The seminar, themed “Leaving the Earth Better Than We Found It”, formed part of the fifth edition of the Open Day for Gardeners, held at the Ecobank Pan African Centre in Victoria Island, Lagos. A video of his remarks was subsequently uploaded to his YouTube channel on Wednesday.
According to Mr Osinbajo, his wife had stopped drinking Coke, Fanta and other carbonated drinks many years earlier and had developed a habit of drinking a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice daily. “Dolly, my dear wife, likes to have a full glass of freshly squeezed orange juice every day. A very healthy habit, by the way. And, you know, especially because she stopped drinking Coke, Fanta, or any of those carbonated drinks.
She just stopped completely many years ago. And she would look at my own Coke-drinking habits, you know, with a lot of disapproval. “I mean, look, you should be doing something healthy. But then, after a while, she started having some strange headaches, drinking her fresh juice every day. Very strange headaches,” he said. The former vice-president said they initially did not suspect the orange juice because they considered it a healthy drink.
“Then she checked everything she was eating or drinking. We were wondering what could be the cause of this. Of course, it couldn’t possibly be the healthy orange juice.