Monday 8 April 2013

LATE EKITI STATE DEPUTY GOVERNOR'S 81 YEAR-OLD MUM KEEPS ASKING FOR HER DAUGHTER AS GOVERNOR, FAYEMI SHEDS TEARS



The aged mother of the late Deputy Governor of Ekiti State, Mrs Funmi Olayinka, on Sunday wept profusely as she received Governor Kayode Fayemi and his wife, Bisi.

Governor, Fayemi, alongside his wife, Bisi and other top government officials paid a condolence visit to late Deputy Governor, Funmi Olayinka's 81 year-old mother... they arrived at the Famuwagun’s family house of the parents of departed Olayinka in Oke Ori-Omi, Ado Ekiti, at about 10am. Thw Governor could not stop crying as Funmi's old grieving mother, Mrs. Adetutu Grace Famuagun, repeatedly asked “Kayode, where is Funmi?

Governor Fayemi in a statement released yesterday,  suspended all official ceremonies.

A condolence register is now open at the office of the governor, office of the deputy, the state liaison offices in Lagos and Abuja.

In addition, the state government has declared a seven-day mourning during which all flags in the state will fly at half mast.

Already, commiseration has been pouring in from publc office holders and other prominent Nigerians.

Mrs. Olayinka, 52 and mother of three, died in a Lagos hospital on Saturday after a long battle with cancer.

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