The MURI/SAM Campaign Council has suspended all activities scheduled for Sunday, October 29, 2023, including a World Press Conference scheduled for 2:00pm to mourn the death of the Ohinoyi of Egbiraland, Alhaji AbdulRahman Ado Ibrahim who died at the age of 95.
The campaign council also directed that SDP flags at the party campaign offices across the state fly at half mast throughout the week in honour of the late Monarch.
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The Kogi State Governorship Candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Muritala Yakubu Ajaka, expressed sadness over the death of His Royal Majesty, Ado Ibrahim, whom he described as a father of the people of the state.
Ajaka also said that the passing of the monarch has robbed the state of the bravest, most courageous, honest, forthright and God fearing leader who worked tirelessly for the unity of the people of the state.
The SDP Governorship candidate said the royal father left at a time the state desperately needed his unifying guidance and wisdom to keep the Kogi state as one indivisible entity.
Ajaka said the last time he visited him, Late Ado Ibrahim was as courageous as ever when he declared that as the oldest paramount ruler in the state every kogite is his child and he would not be intimidated by anyone to reject his own children.
The SDP Governorship candidate further said that the death of the monarch is a calamity to Kogi State and indeed Nigeria because the late Ado Ibrahim represented that rare breed of valiant elders who will never shield the truth no matter the threat or reward for doing so.
Ajaka added that the monarch will be remembered as the King who brought glamour, panache, pomp, and pageantry never before seen in the shores of royalty in Ebiraland.
The SDP Governorship candidate Murtala Yakubu Ajaka On behalf of his immediate family and the teeming supporters of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) commiserated with the good people of Kogi Central and indeed the entire citizens of Kogi State for the irreplaceable loss of a father who recognised every Kogi person as his child.
(Editor: Nkoli Omhoudu)
