One year remembrance prayers held for Pa Fashola

Dignitaries, including the first Civilian Governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande, clerics and former Inspector General of Police, Musiliu Smith,on Tuesday joined Governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN) and his siblings at the one year remembrance and Fidau prayers for late Pa Ibrahim Ademola Bayo Fashola.

In a lecture delivered at the ceremony, which took place at the Surulere Junior Secondary School, Ladipo Labinjo Crescent, Surulere, the Chief Missioner of Ansar-Ud-Deen Society of Nigeria, Sheikh Abdur Rahman Ahmad, urged everyone to live in full recognition that a day of judgement would come.

Ahmad stressed that it should be the preoccupation of man to invest his resources in propagating the works of Almighty God because He is the one that has invested man with all the good things of life including sound health, intelligence and wealth.

Prayers were later offered for the children, wives and siblings of Pa Fashola, who died on August 5 last year at the age of 80.

Later in an interview with newsmen, the governor described his father as a disciplinarian and a man of integrity, who lived an exemplary life, adding that his life taught everyone a great lesson in contentment.

He noted that during his life time, the late Pa Ibrahim Ademola Bayo Fashola built his life around people, spending time in building a very extensive family not just for people who are related to him by blood, but people whose life he impacted.

He said: “We are sad that he is not here.

“We are proud to hold the love, the values that he lived by of being his brother’s keeper, for being contented in whatever situation we may find ourselves and serving God and serving humanity.”

Among those present at the occasion were widow of the late Alhaji Ademola Fashola, Cecilia Omolara Fashola; the children; other family members; members of the State Executive Council; members of the National and Lagos State House of Assembly; local government chairmen; royal fathers; and clerics amongst others.