The former Deputy Governor and leader of All Progressive Congress (APC) in Oyo State, Chief Iyiola Oladokun has mourned the death of Former Secretary to the State Government (SSG) in the state, Chief Michael Adeniyi Koleoso, said his demise is a blow to political class in Nigeria.
Oladokun, in a condolence message issued and made available to the newsmen on Tuesday described the late politician as embodiment of humility and one of the last sets of Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s welfarist School of politics.
Accoreding to him “the death of Chief Koleoso is painful especially during this period that the nation needs the advise and wealth of experience of his likes to salvage economic and political stability of the country.
“He was a tripod stand of Lam Adesina’s political camp that midwifed democracy and rescued the country from the military junta that derailed third Republic.
“He was the pioneer Oyo State Chairman of Alliance for Democracy which party he later led as the National Chairman”, he recalled.
“Chief Koleoso was an astute leader, planner, motivator and political ICON whose vacuum will be very difficult to fill.
Chief Koleoso brought glamour and sincerity to the politics in Oyo State and Nigeria as a whole. He was a listening leader, a man of God who combined politics with industrious activities to better the lots of mankind”, He stressed.
“A political star has dimed and gone into extinction. It will be difficult to have his like back”, he lamented.
He however, prayed to God to give Chief Koleoso’s family, his political followers and entire people of Oyo State the fortitude to bear the great loss, and grant his soul eternal rest, adding that the people of Oyo State and entire progressive class will forever remember the good works by him.