A group of elder statesmen and eminent Nigerians led by Chief Emeka Anyaoku, the Patriots, has said it will immortalise the legacies of the late leader of Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo.

The group also said the late Yoruba leader would be greatly missed.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Adebanjo passed away peacefully at his Lagos residence on Friday at the age of 96.

The Patriots, in a statement on Friday evening by the group’s Secretary-General, Mr Olawale Okunniyi, said that it received the news of Adebanjo’s death with a heavy heart.Okunniyi said, “Adebanjo, in the light of his illustrious life of service to Nigeria and humanity, will be greatly missed by The Patriots and the people of Nigeria that he lived and died for.

“Therefore, The Patriots as his immediate constituency shall therefore be setting up an immortalisation committee in the succeeding period, as its culture, to work out how best to immortalise the legacies of the Eminent Patriot.”

He described Adebanjo’s passing as the end of a remarkable era of a rare patriot.

According to him, the Patriots is proud to be associated with the exemplary life of a lived by Adebanjo.

He said that the late elder statesman was also a leading light and one of the founders of The Patriots.

Okunniyi added: “The Patriots are also glad to relish with pride Chief Adebanjo’s forthrightness and consistency in speaking truth to power in his lifetime.


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