The Ondo State government is preparing to receive the body of the late social critic and legal luminary, Chief Gani Fawehinmi whose remains will arrive Akure on Monday.The Commissioner for Information Ranti Akerele yesterday in a press statement said the body would be lied-in-state at the Akure Sports Stadium to allow admirers pay tributes.
Government, according to the statement, has involved all relevant agencies and private organizations to ensure a befitting passage. Akerele said after the lying-in-state, late Fawehinmi’s body would be conveyed in a motorcade to his Oka residence in Ondo, while it would be honoured on the subsequent day by his kinsmen [Ekinmoguns] at the civic centre Ondo town. The programme would be followed by “Janaza” prayer at the Central Mosque Oke-Otunba before burial at Oka Ondo.
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