Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has mourned the passing of Ayo Adebanjo, a foremost nationalist, elder statesman, and leader of the Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere.

Pa Adebanjo died on Friday morning at his residence in Lekki, Lagos State at age 96.

The governor, in a statement issued on Friday, in Abeokuta, the state capital, described his passing as the end of a glorious era.Abiodun, stressed that the death is a profound loss to Nigeria, adding that the government and people of Ogun State could not have wished for a more glorious end for the unblemished apostle of federalism, good governance, and the defense of Yoruba interests, who stood head and shoulders above many of his contemporaries and set the pace in the critical appraisal of governments and governance as vehicles of social engineering.

He said, “To all intents and purposes, Chief Ayo Adebanjo represented the finest of Ogun State and Nigeria as a whole, and his ideals will never be forgotten.”

“It does not matter where you stand in the political terrain: Adebanjo was a man whose integrity you could not question. He lived through the finest and ugliest moments of Nigerian history, was hounded by the Establishment for his beliefs, and was even exiled for resisting autocracy and the suppression of the masses, and never once hid his identity as a passionate defender of the Yoruba nation and its interests, regardless of whose horse was gored.


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