Ajimobi approves N30 million for ex-gov Ishola’s burial

GOVERNOR Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has approved the sum of N30 million for the burial of the former governor of the state, Chief Kolapo Ishola, who died recently in Ibadan.
The governor has also set up a five-man committee headed by the Special Adviser on Political Matters to the governor, Alhaji Fatai Ibikunle, to liaise with another five-man committee set up by the Ishola family comprising his children and others.
Senator Ajimobi was said to have released the money to silence members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state for allegedly introducing political sentiments into the former governor’s burial.
A source told Vanguard that Governor Ajimobi approved the exact money requested by the family for the burial as a way of forestalling politicisation of the burial by some PDP stalwarts in the state who wanted government alienated from the burial.
It was gathered that some top PDP stalwarts in the state sought to monopolise the burial of Ishola and use it to indict the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, administration.
It will be recalled that Governor Ajimobi announced immediately after Ishola’s death that the state government would accord the late elder statesman a state burial.
The governor had said that Ishola’s loss was personal to him as he was an associate of his late father.
The burial ceremony, which begins on October 3, will culminate in Ishola’s burial on October 7, 2011.

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