Funeral Programme for the late Afenifere spokesperson, Comrade Yinka Odumakin commenced at exactly 9.30 a.m with the wife of the deceased leading the pallbearers who carried her husband casket into the venue of the event at the Origbo Anglican Grammar School, in his country home in Mooro of Ife North local government area of the state.
At the lying in state event of the late activist, close associates and family members trooped out en mass to give heroic departure to the late activist.
It was the heavenly undertakers that first entertained those present at the occasion with their different musical instruments like guitar, drum sets and so on in appreciating God for the lifestyle of the deceased.
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Earlier callers at the event, were the Afenifere leader, Pa Ayo Adebanjo; Managing Director and Editors of the African Newspapers of Nigeria, the publishers of the Nigerian Tribune, Saturday Tribune and Sunday Tribune, Mr. Edward Dickson, Dr. Lasisi Olagunju and Mr. Sina Oladehinde; Representative of Ooni of Ife, Gemade Elugbaju, Chief Jimmy Agbaje; founder of the Sword of the spirit ministry and the President of the Pentecostal of Nigeria, Bishop Wale Oke; former commissioner for Works in Osun State, Barrister Niyi Owolade; Osun State governor, Gboyega Oyetola and his wife, Mrs Kafayat Oyetola; Ekiti State governor, Kayode Fayemi; Osun State deputy governor, Benedict Alabi; former speaker of the Osun State House of Assembly, Adejare Bello; Secretary to the Osun State government, Prince Wole Oyebamiji; MD of Vanguard Newspapers, Gbenga Adefaye; front line activists like Comrade Amitolu Shittu, Comrade Waheed Lawal, the Are Onakakanfo of Yoruba land emissaries, representatives of the monarch of the deceased town, all members of Civil society of Nigeria and other signatories that came from far and near.
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