…as he pays condolence visit to late leader’s family in Lagos
Oyo State Governor, Engnr. Seyi Makinde, on Tuesday, said the leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, who passed away on Friday, aged 96, has tried his best for this country and for all those he left behind, describing him as a strong will leader who always stood by the course he believed in.
Governor Makinde said this during the condolence visit he paid to the Lekki, Lagos residence of the late elder statesman, noting that he and other lovers never expected that Pa Adebanjo would bid the world goodbye at this point in time.
According to the governor, he and others “would have loved Papa to be with us you know, forever,” saying he enjoyed coming to the Lekki residence of the late leader to engage in dialogue “with him, and all of that, but now Papa has gone to rest.”
Governor Makinde, while praying for the the repose of the soul of Pa Adebanjo, who he described as “Iroko’, equally prayed that God should allow those the late leader left behind be able to utilize the lessons he impacted on them for the benefit of this nation.
“Ideally, we would have loved Papa to be with us you know, forever. I mean, I enjoy coming here, you know, argued with him, and all of that, but now Papa has gone to rest.
“He has tried his best for this country and for all of us. We can only pray for those of us that he left behind that the lessons he impacted in us, we should be able to utilize them for the benefit of this nation.
“Well, Papa is strong will, if he believes in a particular course, you can hardly change him,” the governor said.
“Papa, you have done your best for all of us and rest in the bosom of your maker till we meet to part no more. Indeed an ‘Iroko’ has fallen,” he wrote in the condolence register.
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