Elder Statesmen Adesanya Dies
At 85
Nigeria on Sunday lost
another old-guard democracy activist in Afenifere leader,
Abraham Adesanya, who died at the age of 85 after a close shave
with illness for two years.
Adesanya passed on at about 12.20pm on Sunday at his 15 Duala
Street, Apapa, Lagos residence. He was 85.
His body has been deposited at the Lagos State University
Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), from where Governor Babatunde
Fashola said it would be taken and given a state burial.
Fashola spoke amid a dirge echoed by former President Olusegun
Obasanjo; former Senate President, Ken Nnamani; Ogun State
Governor, Gbenga Daniel; other members of Afenifere; as well as
former Ogun State Governor, Segun Osoba; and former Secretary to
the Federal Government, Olu Falae, now Democratic Peoples
Alliance (DPA) Chairman. Former Delta State Governor, James
Ibori, also sent in his condolences, as did Femi Falana, West
African Bar Association (WABA) President.
The solace, however, is that Adesanya lived a worthy life, and
died in old age.
NP/MICHAEL
