Praises as Oluwole, Awo’s Son, is Laid to Rest

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  It was a mixture of encomium and grief, as remains of the late publisher of the Nigerian Tribune titles, Chief Oluwole Awolowo, were laid to rest yesterday in Ikenne, Ogun State. His remains arrived Our Saviour’s Anglican Church in a Hearse led by a chariot shortly before the service began at about 10.15 a.m.
  
  In his sermon, the Bishop of the Anglican Church, Remo Diocese, Michael Olusina Fape, said Nigerians and his family had cause to celebrate Oluwole’s death, even though it was sudden and the circumstances. According to him, every mortal must taste death, whether he or she likes it or not and urged people to always prepare for the life thereafter. His words: “Nobody wants to die; yet it is a must that all of us must die at different times through one circumstance or the other. Death is not the end of humanbeings; it only marks the beginning of eternity without a close.”
  
  He extolled the good virtues of the late Awolowo, which he said were worthy of emulation, particularly his humility and philanthropic gesture through which he touched many lives. “Oluwole worked in the footsteps of his father, the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo and never behaved as if he came from a rich family unlike many of his peers,” the Bishop said. Fape, who spoke in the presence of the Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, who led a delegation of the Federal Government, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambulwa and five state governors, said insincerity was the bane of the country.
  
  He charged Nigerian politicians to always bear good fruits in their stewardship to the people. “It  could not have been better if Oluwole lived for 100 or 120 years. He had lived a good life and touched many lives worthy of emulation by all and sundry, particularly our politicians,” he said. In his tribute, President Goodluck Jonathan, who was represented by Mr. Maku, noticed that the late Tribune’s publisher made his mark in the service of the country.
  
  He said: “Let me say that if you look at Chief Awolowo’s political history, one thing that marked him out as a sage in our country wasn’t the offices he held but that he was always led by honour, by the truth and he was always led by what he spread in the Nigeria federation.” At about 1.32p.m. Oluwole’s  remains were interred at the family vault at Our Saviour’s Anglican Church’s cemetery, besides his late brother, Segun Awolowo, the first son of the late sage.