Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose is calling on all Nigerian politicians to please preserve Chief Mrs H I D Awolowo's legacy and desist from playing politics with death of the matriarch of the Awolowo's dynasty. The Governor who spoke in Ikenne-Remo, Ogun State, warned everyone against celebrating the deceased for political reasons, advising that politicians should rather sustain her legacy as well as that of her late husband, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, noting also, that visiting the Awolowos should not just be a one-off thing aimed at making publicity stunts.
“One thing I like to remind all politicians; it is in our way to make politics out of people’s lives, to celebrate them for political reasons" he said
Chief Obafemi Awolowo's jewel of inestimable value died on Saturday, 19th at 3:15pm, two months to her centenary birthday.
She was said to have passed on after she held a meeting with her family members on the plan for her 100-years birthday.
Announcing the demise, her eldest child, Omotola Oyediran, in a statement she signed on behalf of the family, said...
“Mama died while praying for her children over her planned centenary birthday”.
The statement read: “Mama died as glorious as she lived. She spent the day in the company of her children, grand children, great grand children and close family. She shared a precious few minutes with them when she went in to pray for them as they met to plan her centenary birthday.
“They sang her a befitting song as she came in and she continued to pray for them. She died a couple of hours later as she had always wished to be surrounded by her children, grand children and great grand children.”
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