The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has expressed its deep sense of loss at the death of Pa Ademola Fashola, the father of the Lagos State Governor, His Excellency Babatunde Raji Fashola. The party sees the loss as a great loss to the country given the great task of nation building which the governor is prosecuting, which is lauded throughout the length and breadth of the Nigerian nation.
In a release in Lagos, signed by the Lagos State Interim Publicity Secretary of the APC, Joe Igbokwe, the party said that Pa Fashola left an indelible footprint in the quality of son he gave Nigeria and said that his memory will always resonate whenever Nigerians recall the superlative effort his son has made to lift Nigeria from the pith of decay and bad governance, it prayed God to grant Pa Fashola eternal rest in paradise.
“We mourn a disciplined, honest and strict father, who deployed all noble and honest means to train his children and kept them strictly on the paths of decency, honesty and integrity. We mourn a mourn of stellar and exemplary character who devoted all he had to train his children in the ways of the Almighty. His was a life of full accomplishment, which finds great expression in the wonderful son he gave to Nigerian governance as an exemplar in transparent and result oriented governance. In Governor Fashola, we know that Pa Fashola breathed his last, confident that he had etched a permanent positive denture in the Nigerian progress history and Lagos APC feels honoured to identify with this great result of the positive life Pa Fashola led while on earth.
“A measure of the disciplined and noble life Pa Fashola lived was that he was never ever known to exert himself or meddle into the affairs of Lagos State while his son was the governor. He was never ever known to have changed the spartan and frugal lifestyle he led as soon as his son became the governor. His strictness and discipline is what is impacting so tremendously in the running of Lagos today and it is influencing the lives of majority of Nigerians as Lagos remains the nerve center of the Nigerian nation.
“Pa Fashola died a great man in the sense that he lived to witness the wonderful works of his son in the reinvention of Lagos and its massive transformation into a reference center in good governance and performance in the Nigerian dour excursion in democratic governance. We take his loss as a great loss not not only the immediate Fashola family, Lagos State and the APC but to the entire Nigerian nation which had struck its lowest points given the absence of men of character, integrity and honesty, needed to show exemplary attitude to governance and public office in Nigeria. We celebrate Pa Fashola on the milestone of the wonderful traits and character he transmitted to the Nigerian nation while on earth.
“We condole His Excellency, Governor Raji Fashola on this irreparable loss and we want him to see the passing on of his father as a challenge to do more to lead the rescue of Nigeria from the piths of darkness, decay and rot as he had been doing in the last six years. We condole the Fashola family, the government and people of Lagos, the expanding APC family and indeed the entire Nigerian nation on this great. We pray that God grant the soul of Pa Fashola his deserved rest in Paradise.”