JONATHAN,CHIEF OLU FALAE, FRANK UKONGA, JAKANDE AND OTHERS PAY TRIBUTES TO DR OLUSOLA SARAKI
The SDMP National Chairman Chief Olu Falae has express condolence to the family of the late colossus of the Nigeria Politics at the demise of Dr Olusola Saraki, While Prince Frank Ukonga a presidential Hopeful of the Nigerian Federation come 2015 polls has expressed that Dr Olusola Saraki was one of the greatest phenomenon in the Nigerian political landscape for the past 52 years of our independence and he added that his exemplary leadership will be missed.
Among those who paid glowing tributes to Dr Saraki, yesterday, were
President Goodluck Jonathan, Senate President David Mark, House of
Representatives Speaker Aminu Tambuwal, Governors Adams Oshiomhole
(Edo), Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti), Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun) and Rauf Aregbesola
(Osun).
Second Republic politicians and senators such as Alhaji Lateef
Jakande, Senator David Dafinone, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, Chief Ayo
Adebanjo, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai also showered tributes and urged
Nigerians to emulate Saraki’s virtues.
Also on hand to condole with the Sarakis were the ruling Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP; the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN; Conference
of Nigeria Political Parties, CNPP; Deputy Senate President Ike
Ekweremadu; Deputy House of Representatives Speaker, Emeka Ihedioha; ACN
National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; and Kwara State House of
Assembly, Senators Joy Emordi and Christy Anyanwu.
We’ve lost a political colossus – Jonathan
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan yesterday commiserated with the family
and people of Kwara State on the death of Saraki whom he described as
“one of Nigeria’s most prominent leaders, medical practitioner and
democrat”A statement signed by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, said President Jonathan “extends sincere commiserations to the elder statesman’s family and the people of his home state, Kwara to whose service and upliftment he selflessly devoted his long and very successful career in politics”.
While urging his family and the people of Kwara State to be consoled by the knowledge that their departed father, leader and mentor lived a very successful and fulfilled life, the President said the late Dr. Saraki would be “long remembered and eulogized as a consummate politician, an astute grassroots mobiliser, and a politica
“HE has been battling cancer for about five years. He was fine this
morning. He was comfortable and even said his prayers. He died in the
presence of one of my brothers, my mother and my two sisters. He gave up
the ghost at about 6 a.m.”
With these words, Olaolu Saraki, son of Second Republic Senate Leader
and kingmaker of Kwara politics, Dr Olusola Saraki, told reporters how
his father died yesterday in Lagos, aged 79.
Ade Ogunrinmola
Editor National Peoples News/ Lagos
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