Oba Sijuwade’s legacies will endure for generations – Atiku

Abuja – Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar
has described the deceased Ooni of Ife, Oba
Okunade Sijuwade Olubuse (II) as a traditional
ruler whose lofty legacies on the thrown will

endure for generations.


Also the National Coordinator of the Oodua
Peoples Congress, OPC, and Convener of the
Oodua Progressives Union, OPU, Gani Adams, has
been described death of Ooni of Ife, as a
monumental and irreparable loss to the Oduduwa
race.The former Vice President, who is also the Aare
Adimula of the Source said in a condolence
message released by his media office in Abuja
on Thursday, 13 August that Oba Sijuwade’s
reign was epochal and in a class of its own.He also condoled Osun State Governor, Ogbeni
Rauf Aregbesola and the entire people of Osun
for the exit of a remarkable royal father whose
sneeze will send cold into the spine of other
traditional rulers.
He therefore called on all Nigerians particularly,
the Yorubas to pray for the repose of the
soul of the late Oba and use his death as a
contact of reunion and re-affirmation to the
ideals of Oodua.