The Action Congress of Nigeria presidential candidate for the 2011 elections, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, has condoled with the leadership of the Nigerian Union of Journalists and members of the journalism profession over the death of three journalists in a ghastly auto crash.
Ribadu, in a statement in Abuja, described the death of the journalists as a loss not only for their employers and the union but also to Nigeria as a country “in view of the roles of journalists in shaping the direction of the nation”.
He described the unionists as hardworking and selfless, the virtues he said were proven by the circumstances of their deaths and the encomiums that trailed the incident.
Those who died in the accident were Adolphous Okonkwo, the National Financial Secretary of the NUJ; Kafayat Odunsi of the Nigeria Television Authority, Lagos; and the Chairman of the Radio Nigeria, Ibadan Network Centre of the NUJ, Tunde Oluwanike.
The chieftain of the All Progressives Congress also consoled Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, on the death of his father, Pa Ibrahim Ademola Fashola, who died after a protracted illness.
Late Pa Fashola, according to Ribadu, lived an exemplary and modest life and strived to serve his people at all the time.
He therefore enjoined the Lagos State governor to take solace in the public endorsements of the deceased’s good conducts.
Ribadu also called on Fashola to immortalise the late septugenarian community leader by imbibing his community service credentials that earned the deceased respect.
While praying for the repose of the souls of the deceased journalists and the community leader, Ribadu also prayed for Allah to grant the bereaved families fortitude to bear the loss.
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