BEVERLY HILLS, Aprill 03, (THEWILL) – President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed condolences with the family, friends and acquaintances of Yinka Odumakin, spokesman of Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere.
Odumakin died on Saturday at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) Covid Isolation Centre, according to his wife, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin.
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Buhari, in a condolence message by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, recalled Odumakin as dutiful, and a person of conviction, expressing sorrow at his demise, when he had a lot more to contribute to society and the nation at large.
Buhari prayed that God grant repose to the soul of the departed activist, and comfort all those left to mourn him.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday paid a condolence visit to the Leader of Afenifere, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, on the demise of the group’s National Publicity Secretary.
Obasanjo visited the nonagenarian at his Lagos residence to commiserate with him on the death of Odumakin.
Adebanjo had in a tweet described the death of the Afenifere spokesman as “too heavy to bear.”
Odumakin spoke tenaciously for the rights of the Yoruba and the people of the South-West geopolitical zone.
He was also a staunch critic of the policies and programmes of the administration of Buhari.
The late Afenifere spokesman, amongst other things, canvassed the ideas of restructuring, fiscal federalism and decentralised policing as solutions to the country’s socio-economic challenges
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