Wow what manner of love this is! They still look cute on that wedding dress even at their age. This is how it should be, when love grows as you grow old in age. Happy for them, God Bless their reunion!
History was made in Plateau State, Nigeria recently as 107-year old Dikam Garba Dabo’ok and 95-year old Ka’a Nafung got married in a church ceremony which took place at the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN), Chizu village in Bwai, Mangu Local Government Area of the state.
As reported by The Nation, the couple had lived together as husband and wife for 70 years before making their union official as they rekindled their love in the ceremony. The celebrants are the first couple in the history of the state to have marital vows administered on them while they are both that advanced in age and the ceremony has remained the talk of the town and will surely remain so for a long while to come.
At 95, the bride is well past her menopause and her surviving first child is 65 years old already. The groom, popularly known to many in his neighbourhood as Baba Dikam, is 107 years old and may no longer be sexually active but all that was not enough to dissuade the couple from walking down the aisle arm-in-arm for a new marital oath.
They had a procession and matched into the church separately as if they never met before and only came together after they were wedded by the officiating pastor, Tongwe Sale. The groom was dressed in black suite and a red neck tie to match while the bride stepped out dressed in a pure white wedding gown with a neatly made hair to match.
They drove to the church in separate vehicles, as if they never met before. The groom was accompanied by cutely dressed men and the bride by a long bridal train. It was celebration galore at the reception for the family and friends of the couple as the couple told their excited guests at the reception their true life stories. They said it was the grace of God that allowed them to solemnise their marriage in the church.
According to the groom: ‘I had seven wives and 32 children during my younger days, but I did so because I did not know Christ. But that made me great among my contemporaries as only those who were wealthy could do that. But in spite of that, God remained faithful and merciful for me.
‘I have a lot of testimonies to show that God was so faithful to me. I am now in a better position to advise my children and my well wishers to live the life of Christ. I don’t want any of my children to emulate my past life style, because you may fall out of the grace and mercies of God. But I’m so pleased because my children are committed to Christ; they lived the life of Christ, they were the ones that insisted I must come to Christ and take their mother to the altar.
‘Before now we lived our lives outside Christ, but from today, we are now confirmed children of Christ. It would have been worse for us if we had died without Christ. But God has protected our lives up till this moment to come to Him.’
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