Dauda Olamilekan, a 30-year-old butcher in Ogbomoso, Oyo State, has requested assistance from philanthropists and all levels of government in order to care for quadruplets born to his wife Rukayat Olamilekan.
In an exclusive interview with news men on Saturday, Olamilekan made this claim.
According to information obtained by journalist, Rukayat Olamilekan, the wife of the butcher, gave birth to quadruplets on Thursday.
There are two boys and two girls in the quadruplets.
At the Baaki Primary Healthcare Center in Ogbomoso, they were born.
As of the time this news was filed, the infants were being maintained in the incubator at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Teaching Hospital in Ogbomoso.
Before the quadruplets arrived, the family had already been blessed with two children, according to information obtained.
However, the husband, Olamilekan of Alfa complex in Ijeru, Ogbomoso, has requested assistance from philanthropists and all tiers of government in order to provide for his family.
In an interview with the Daily Post on Saturday, Olamilekan made a plea for well-meaning Nigerians to help him.
He begged the authorities to help the family so that the infants might receive the proper treatment.
“My wife delivered quadruplets on Thursday. I live in one room in Ogbomoso. I am a butcher. I am 30 years old, and my wife is 27 years old. She is a trader.
“We don’t have money. I wanted her to abort the babies before, because we don’t have money. We did a scan at Genesis Medical Diagnostics Centre and they told us there were four babies. I said we don’t have money and she should abort it, but the centre told us not to abort it. They were the ones who helped us until she gave birth.
“We don’t have money. I want governments at all levels to support us, because it is beyond us. I don’t have anyone to support us. I want governments to support us.
“The babies are currently in the incubator at LAUTECH teaching hospital, Ogbomoso.”