AKEREDOLU, KEKEMEKE AND OTHERS BID MRS FAGUNWA GOODBYE

The ancient town of Oke-Igbo in Ile-Oluji/Oke-Igbo Local Government Area was crowded with dignitaries from all walks of life who bid the wife of the late renowned Yoruba writer, Chief Daniel Fagunwa, farewell at weekend.

Among the people were Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, Prof Peter Fatomilola, wife of the former governor of Ekiti State, Chief Bisi Fayemi,, and the former Chairman of APC, Ondo State, Chief Isaacs Kekemeke.

Akeredolu described late Chief Elizabeth Adebanke Fagunwa as a good parent, teacher, humanist, and cultural conservationist whose visionary zeal and committed work defined the true essence of leadership.

The Governor maintained that late Chief Elizabeth Fagunwa had led a true life of a real matriarch with attention to welfare, physical, emotional and spiritual stability of all who came in contact with her.

Speaking on her mother, Yejide Ogundipe, a one time local government Chairman of Ile-Oluji/Oke-Igbo, described her as a confidant and pillar behind her late father, Chief Daniel Fagunwa.

In the same vein, Dipo Fagunwa, a novelist like his father, said late Chief Elizabeth Fagunwa had truly bestowed on them legacies and virtues of a true mother.

Late Chief Elizabeth Adebanke Fagunwa aged 93, refused to remarry having lost her husband, Late Chief Daniel Fagunwa, who wrote Yoruba literature books such as Igbo Irunmole, Irinkerindo inu Igbo Elegbeje, Ireke Onibudo, and Igbo eledumare, at the tender age of 31.

Late Chief Elizabeth Adebanke Fagunwa is survived by children, grand children and great grand children.

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