By Oluwakemi Ishola
The Governors of Lagos and Osun states, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Gboyega Oyetola respectively will, on Monday, commission some of the multibillion hospitality and housing projects owned by the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Oyo State in 2019, Oloye Bayo Adelabu.
While Sanwo-Olu is billed to commission Bayse One Hotel at Samonda, Oyetola will inaugurate Adelabu’s housing estate located at Jericho, both in the state capital, Ibadan.
The event, Sunday Tribune gathered, is part of the grand finale activities to mark the 50th birthday of Adelabu, who resigned from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in 2018 to clinch the governorship ticket of the APC for the last election.
Adelabu, who kick-started the one-week celebration with a media parley on Thursday, thanked God for sparing his life to witness his 50th birthday, recalling that his grandfather, the late Alhaji Adegoke Adelabu, popularly called Penkelemesi and his own father, Aderibigbe Adelabu, died at 43 and 33 years respectively.
On Friday, the former CBN deputy governor was at the popularly Oja’ba Central Mosque where he observed the Jumat service to thank Allah for his sparing him to reach 50 years.
Yesterday, the Agbaakin Parakoyi of Ibadanland visited about four orphanage homes where he donated food items worth millions of naira to the children at the homes.
He, thereafter, empowered widows and other needy with handsome cash as part of activities to mark the golden age.
In observance of the COVID-19 protocols, Adelabu urged APC faithful across the state to remain in their zones and has made arrangements to celebrate the day with them in all the seven zones of the state.
