Late Pa Fashola was a great grandson of the late philanthropist, Bello Fashola who was a close friend of Oba Esugbayi, who ruled as the Oba of Lagos back then.
The deceased’s great grandfather was instrumental to his return to Lagos in 1932 after the Eleko was banished by colonial authorities around 1925.
Governor Fashola is airborne on his way back home now from Umrah, Saudi Arabia.
Meanwhile Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has condoled with his
Lagos State counterpart, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola over the passing away of
his father, Pa Ademola Fashola at the early hours of Monday at the age of 79.
Ajimobi, in a statement issued in Ibadan on Monday by his
Special Adviser on Media, Dr. Festus Adedayo, described the demise of the patriarch
of the Fashola dynasty as a great loss to the family.
``Papa was a devout Muslim, community
leader and a shining example of humility and philanthropy, as he shared
virtually everything he had with the needy, irrespective of where they came
from,’’ he remarked.
Although the governor said that the deceased would be sorely
missed by his immediate family, the people of Lagos State and indeed, the whole
of South-West, he, however, admonished Governor Fashola and his other siblings
to take solace in the fact that he lived a fulfilled life.
Sen. Ajimobi prayed for the repose of the soul of the
deceased, and the Fashola family the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.
