By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan
Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Governor Seyi Makinde and other prominent Nigerians are
According to a statement issued in Ibadan on Sunday by the spokesperson for the Oyo State Political Class, (organisers of the Day of Tributes), Alhaji Kehinde Olaosebikan, the event is to hold at Jogor Centre, Liberty Road, Oke Ado, Ibadan as from 11am
The spokesperson stated that Vice President Osinbajo and Gov Makinde are expected to lead other eminent Nigerians including former and serving governors, ministers, Senators, Members of House of Representatives, Commissioners, local government Chairmen and other political office holders and gladiators in paying the tributes.
Alhaji Olaosebikan stressed that the day of tributes will kick start programmes lined up the burial ceremony for the late Otunba Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala.
In the statement, Alhaji Olaosebikan maintained that at the day of tributes, people from all walks of life will express their views on the life of the departed governor while captains of industry, labor leaders, professional and vocational union leaders, market leaders, socio cultural associations’ leaders, students, women and youth leaders across the state will also grace the tributes.
Other programmes lined up for the day of tributes organized by a conglomerate of all the politicians across party lines in Oyo State under the chairmanship of Chief Wale Ohu and Honorable Olusegun Olayiwola, will be a lecture on the political life of the late Alao-Akala titled ‘ Otunba Christopher Adebayo Alao Akala: The Life of a Humane Politician’ .
The lecture according to the statement is to be delivered by a retired federal permanent secretary and eminent scholar, lecturer, National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies ,Professor Tunji Olaopa; and cultural displays.
” All necessary arrangements have been concluded to give the late former governor, generally known as the most loved and cherished governor ever in Oyo State, the aptest burial in all ramifications,” he said.
Alhaji Olaosebikan added, ” as the governor of Oyo State for 4 years and 11 months, Otunba Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala was exceptional in governance; pragmatic, compassionate, sagacious and uncommonly generous. All these virtues and his delightful relationships with the high and the low in the society earned him the appellation of Oyato Governor. He was indeed unique and uncommon in his ways”
