Kaduna and Ogun states governors, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai and Senator Ibikunle Amosun, have felicitated with the “Adegoke Adelabu Foundation”, and the ‘Penkelemesi’ family on the celebration of the late politician and statesman’s posthumous centenary birthday held recently in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
In a letter sent to the Chairman of the Adelabu Centenary Birthday Planning Committee, Oloye ‘Lekan Alabi, the Chief of Staff to Mallam El-Rufai, Mrs. Hadiza Usman, regretted the governor’s “inability to attend this remarkable celebration due to pressing official engagements,” but “wishes for a fruitful celebration.”
In his own congratulatory letter to the former General Manager, Corporate Affairs of the Odu’a Investment Company
Limited and the Aare Alaasa Olubadan of
Ibadanland, Governor Amosun said: “the fact that ‘Penkelemesi’, as Adelabu was fondly called, died over 57 years ago has not in any way erased his memory from the minds of the people.”
