When Idowu Philips, popularly known as Iya Rainbow’s daughter, Sola Osborne, died on January 14, it became hard for her to survive. She really loved her because she was the backbone of her church, C&S Ori Oke Gbebe Mii, in Ojodu, Lagos.
While the cause of the death was not stated out publicly, a source close to the family said Sola, who was an ulcer patient, died as a result of too much fasting.
The source said, “I learnt Aunty Sola was an ulcer patient and she was always on marathon fasting, which is not good enough for someone like that. But being a prophetess, she felt she had to fulfil her calling. That’s why she always fasted. But I learnt she suddenly collapsed the evening she returned from a spiritual retreat.”
Iya Rainbow, however, told The Point that the doctors didn’t tell her that she died as a result of steady fasting.
“She was always fasting because she was a prophetess. But the people that do not fast have ulcer. She had drugs she was using regularly,” she had stated.
