The Lagos Teach Governor alongside his Ogun Teach counterpart, Prince Dapo Abiodun and the Chairman of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote on Thursday paid their closing admire to the significant indigenous chartered accountant in Nigeria and elder statesman, Chief Akintola Williams at his funeral service on Thursday.
Also existing on the funeral service which changed into held on the Shell Hall of the MUSON Centre, Onikan by the Wesley Cathedral Olowogbowo, Lagos, were a old-fashioned governor of Ogun, Ibikunle Amosun; founding father of Zenith Bank, Jim Ovia and old-fashioned Minister of International Affairs, Overall Ike Nwachukwu (rtd).
In a press assertion by the chief press secretary of the governor, Gboyega Akosile, on Thursday, Sanwo-Olu, talking on the funeral service, described the leisurely Williams as a man God blessed with lengthy lifestyles. He also described him as a great Nigerian and a mammoth Lagosian.
He stated “At 104, how effectively would you picture a man that God first blessed with a lengthy lifestyles and for a really very lengthy time, excellent effectively being, and he had proven management in any admire stages? He changed into a great Nigerian; a man who took his legitimate colleagues to an enviable level worldwide.
“He changed into also a lover of God, a churchgoer, and a man who built the altar of a church. He had all of the pillars to tick as a legitimate man. We are able to most productive make a choice the family all of the very simplest.
“To the nation, we now contain lost a great Nigerian and for us in Lagos, we lost a mammoth Lagosian. We can continue to contain recollections of the hospitable lifestyles that he lived. I will chase over him in my belief. I agree with he lived a legitimate lifestyles.”
In his speech, Abiodun stated the footprint of the leisurely Akintola Williams will dwell within the sand of time for plenty of years thanks to what he stood for at some point of his lifetime.
In his sermon, the Prelate Emeritus of the Methodist Church Nigeria, Dr Sunday Makinde, educated family, chums and co-workers to immortalise the deceased by supporting the Akintola Williams Centenary Constructing Mission of the church.
Point to also were captains of alternate, monetary institution executives, bishops, monks, family, chums and co-workers of the deceased both dwelling and in a foreign nation.