Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde is set to attend the posthumous birthday event in honour of his predecessor, Late Abiola Ajimobi.
This is coming three years after a face-off between the governor and the family of the late Ajimobi.
Recall that Mrs. Florence Ajimobi, upon his husband’s death alleged the refusal of the governor to honour late Ajimobi with the preferred choice of where the former governor was to be buried.
According to Florence, her husband never had a problem with the state government despite their different political affiliation, but the state government saw him as their enemy.
Florence during the visit of the Deputy Governor, Rauf Olaniyan said “My husband took ill precisely on 27th of May and he was hospitalised.”
“And I read on the papers that he (Gov Makinde) claimed that he called me but he didn’t. He didn’t call me. Even if he had called me, I never had his number. He should have sent text messages for record purposes.
“Then today again, I read in the papers that Ajimobi’s family are lying about. Mr. deputy governor, my husband never had anything against the governor. We were in different political parties and he was an elder statesman. He slept on that ground.”
“The governor of Oyo state never called me. He never signed a condolence message. Never called even when my husband was on sick bed for one month.”
The 6th Annual Senator Abiola Ajimobi Roundtable and 74th posthumous birthday will hold on Saturday, December 16, 2023 at Abiola Ajimobi Resource Centre, University of Ibadan.
The lead paper for this year’s Roundtable entitled ; Re-Engineering Nigeria for Sustainable Development: Options, Costs and Prospects which holds at the Abiola AjimobiResource Centre will be delivered by Prof Isaac Olawale Albert, former Dean, Faculty of Multidisciplinary Studies, University of Ibadan.
