As Mogaji is buried on Sunday, Ribadu, Aregbesola, Fayemi mourn

The remains of the late mother of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a former Governor of Lagos State and National Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Alhaja Abibatu Mogaji, will be laid to rest on Sunday morning.
Mogaji, who died on Saturday evening, will be buried at 11am at the Muslim Cemetery in Ikoyi, Lagos State.
Magaji died at about 6pm in her Ikeja, Lagos State residence and was aged 95.
Muslim prayers and reception will be held immediately after the burial at the Blue Roof in Ikeja.
Meanwhile, condolences have begun to pour in on the death of Mogaji.
The 2011 presidential flag bearer of the ACN, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, has described the death of Mogaji as drawing a curtain on an era of “courageous women movement that characterised independence struggle and beyond, in Nigeria.”
A statement by Ribadu’s media aide, Abdulaziz Abdulaziz, quoted the former boss of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission as expressing sorrow and shock over the death of the renowned women leader, whom he described as “the last of exemplary amazons”.
According to him, the deceased’s doggedness, resilience and selfless community service were virtues that would remain indelible in the face of Nigeria’s history and non-state movements in black Africa in general.
The death of Mogaji has also been described a loss in a mother in a million.
This was the remark of the Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, when he received the news of the demise of the late martriach of the Magaji family.
In a statement issued and signed on behalf of Aregbesola by the Director, Bureau of Communications and Strategy, Semiu Okanlawon, the governor said the death of the Tinubu matriarch would leave a big vacuum both in the political and commercial sectors of not only Lagos State but Nigeria at large.
Aregbesola said Madam Mogaji led a life of substance worthy of emulation.
The Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has described the death of the President-General of the Market Men and Women Association of Nigeria as a great and monumental loss for the nation’s commerce and economy.
The governor said in a statement on Saturday that Alhaja Mogaji was a pillar of support for many people in her lifetime as she served as an oak of succour to the less-privileged.
Fayemi, in the statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Olayinka Oyebode, described Alhaja Mogaji as a legend, a colossus and a titan whose contributions would remain indelible in the minds of many.
Fayemi however said he was happy that the late market leader lived to a very ripe old age and positively contributed to the nation’s economy as an investor, entrepreneur, employer of labour and a big-time merchant.