Senator Opeyemi Bamidele pays homage to Buhari, Oba Adetona

Senator Opeyemi Bamidele pays homage to Buhari, Oba Adetona

Leader of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele paid tribute to the former president Muhammadu Buhari and the Sovereign Paramount of Ijebuland, Awujale of Ijebu Ode, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona (Ogbagba II), describing them as non -impressive supporters, stability and one

In a declaration of the management of the media and public affairs, office of the leader of the Senate on Monday, Bamidele reflected on how Buhari and Oba Adetona served patriotically their homeland, the states and the communities before they were both called respectively at full mature age of 82 and 91 years.

Therefore, he observed that their passage was not only a huge loss for their families, communities and immediate states, but also for the Federal Republic of Nigeria, West Africa, Africa in general and black nations all over the world, which served in different skills until Sunday 13 July 2025.

As a military head of state (January 1984-August 1985), Bamidele noticed that Buhari was an incarnation of discipline and self-control, which brought with personal integrity “to free the country’s audience to all forms of malfunction and put our homeland on the track of justice and righteousness.

In the fourth republic, in particular, Bamidele reflected on how Buhari launched his tent with the people; An units with the progressives through the Niger and fought the conservatives under whose administrations Nigeria experienced economic regression and institutional decay.

He noticed Bohari struggles for a nigeria without graft, starting from when he contested the presidential elections without fear on the platform of the deceased party of all the peoples of Nigeria to when he led the formation of the deceased congress for progressive change 2015.

Bamidele, therefore, has extended the deepest condolence to his wife, Aisha Buhari; All his children, the traditional leaders of Daura’s Emirate, the government and the people of the State of Katsina and, of course, the Federal Republic of Nigeria, in particular the president and the commander in chief of the armed forces, his Excellency Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

On behalf of the Senate and his south-western Caucus on Monday, Bamidele condemned the dominant chamber Anikilaya of Ijebu-Ode, the entire people of the kingdom of Ijebu, as well as the government and the people of the state of Ogun for the passage of the great monarch, whose departure was announced on Sunday.

Bamidele described the deceased monarch as a natural supporter of peace and stability, whose kingdom between January 1960 and July 2025 was a witness of growth and real development, consciously govern not as a sectional leader, but as a sovereign of all his subjects, regardless of their political inclination, race and religion.

In several dispensations, according to Bamidele, Oba Sikiru adothona maintained the holiness of royalty and firmly defended its kingdom, both under the military sovereign and during the democratic eras.

The leader of the Senate added that the monarch convincingly “lived and worked for the development, peace and unity not only of the kingdom of Ijebu, of the state of Ogun or Southwest, but in fact of our homeland in general”.