‘I beat breast cancer to birth healthy twins at 59 after Pastor Adeboye laid hands on me’ — Olori Olusola Adedoyin Alao

The story of Olori Olusola Adedoyin Alao should have ended four days after doctors told her to prepare for death. But, then, it didn’t as what declared a countdown to her last breath was miraculously transformed into the beginning of two new lives.

The former banker, now wife to Oba Francis Olusola Alao, the Olugbon of Orile Igbon, Oyo State, didn’t just beat breast cancer, she also went on to achieve what conventional wisdom could well declare a biological improbability.

“I thought they said people that have cancer cannot give birth,” Olori Olusola told The Nation’s Innocent Duru in an interview published on Monday. She said a miraculous encounter with the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch A. Adeboye, upturned her death ultimatum.

“I am a cancer survivor. Between 2005 and 2006, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. After I went through the treatment, they now came out and said they were sorry, that what did I want for my life, and I said, ‘which life?’

“They said, ‘you only have a few days left on the face of this earth and what do you want to do?’ They said there was an Angel Foundation that could arrange anything. They said do you want to meet with the Queen of England, the Prime Minister, see the president of America; whatever would give me joy for the few days that were left.

“You know white people honestly can be callous.  If they want to break such news to you here, they would call your grandfather, grandmother, your pastor, your alfa and everybody, that before she dies from shock, please be present. They would pray and fast. The whites don’t care about all that. I call it callousness because it is not in my culture that you will just call me and say that I have just four days to live. What kind of madness was that?

“I didn’t choose any (of the options). I just wanted to come back to Nigeria. Even if I was going to die, I didn’t want to die in a foreign land. I was even too confused and just wanted to come back to Nigeria, because it was a shock and I couldn’t digest it.

“But fortunately, my father in the lord, Pastor Adeboye, called me and said, ‘Sola, how is your health?’ I said, ‘Daddy, they told your daughter to go home and die. They said all treatment had failed.’

“The following day, he called and said, ‘The Lord told me to come and lay hands and rebuke cancer from the cells.’ He had a revival in Enugu that same day. He laid hands on me and two days later I went to the hospital and they didn’t see anything.

“When they didn’t see anything, they said it had gone into remission. Something you don’t see, how do you know it has gone into remission? It is something you see you know where it is. They said it had gone into remission. I don’t know the meaning of that.  That means it is no longer functioning, abi?

When asked about how many days she has lived since the time doctors told her to prepare to die, Olori Olusola replied, “I have stopped counting. I just gave birth to a set of twins. I thought they said people that have cancer cannot give birth.”