Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has commiserated with the Awolowo family, the government and people of Ogun State and Nigeria in general on the death of MRS HID Awolowo, wife of late Obafemi Awolowo, who died on Saturday at the age of 99.
Saraki, in a statement issued on Saturday, disclosed that he was “enthusiastically looking forward to making a big but surprise visit to Ikenne, Ogun State to be part of the Centenary birthday celebration” of the deceased, who he said “truly distinguished herself am ong her contemporaries.”
The embattled Senate President further said the late Awolowo Matriarch “served God and humanity to the end.”
He noted that “even as a nonagenarian” the deceased kept “hosting different fora and contributing to ideas on the unity of the Yoruba people in particular and Nigeria in general.”
Saraki further described her as an “epitome of a good wife and mother,” urging Nigerians to “take solace in the fact that Mama lived a good life.”
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