Ibadan, June 9, 2020(NAN) Chief Akin Oke, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Chairman in Oyo State, has described the death of his predecessor, Samuel Farinu, as a great loss.
Oke, who led members of the state APC executives to the home of the deceased in Oyo town on Tuesday, described late Farinu as a strong pillar of progressives loyal to the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo,
He said Farinu worked with others to facilitate good governance as well as progressive ideology.
” We received the news of the death of Baba Farinu with a great shock because we would have loved to continue deriving maximum benefits from his wealth of experience, wisdom and guidance.
“Baba Farinu is a thorough-bred progressive politician. We found succour in the fact that he died a fulfilled man at the ripe age of 93 years.
“Chief Farinu took us through the thick and thin as progressive politicians in those years when some anti-democratic forces confined us to the dustbin of opposition in the state and the country at large,” he said.
The APC chairman, who emerged the late Farinu’s successor in 2010, said the deceased never abandoned the progressive family.
According to him, Farinu was always there for consultation and support up till the moment he breathed his last.
“But for the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, we would have been here in multitude from across the state to underscore the fact that Baba Farinu is valued as our father and leader even in death,” Oke said.
In her response, the widow, Mrs Adetola Farinu, thanked the delegation for the condolence visit.
Mrs Farinu, who spoke through Mrs Bola Ekundayo, promised to reach out to the visiting delegation on the comprehensive burial programme for the deceased as soon as the family met and decided on it.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports the late Farinu, the pioneer Chairman of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Oyo State, died on June 4 at 93 years.
NAN reports that the delegation later visited the homes of Chief Akin Ojebode and High Chief Solomon Akindele to register the party’s condolences. (NAN)
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