Popular Nigerian businessman and socialite, Obinna Oyiegbu, fondly called Obi Cubana, revealed that no one in his family has lived to see the age of 80.
He shared that his late mother attempted to break this generational curse but was unable to, passing away at 79.
In a conversation with media personality Chude Jideonwu, Obi Cubana explained that his family chose to hold a grand funeral for his mother because she could not overcome this generational jinx.
“In my family, nobody has lived up to 80 years, and I’m saying this for the first time. My father died at 66, my grandmother died at 75, my grandfather died at 78, and it ran through to my mom.
“All my siblings are married and successful, and we were praying for my mother to break the generational jinx and the kind of party we would throw for her, nobody would have ever done it; we even started saving up for that. And she died on December 31, at the age of 79, after celebrating 78.
“So I said, she tried at 79 and half, so we brought everything together to celebrate her, at least; she tried and almost broke the jinx, that was why we went all out for the burial,” he said.