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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