By Wale Ojo-Lanre
The first military hero from Ekiti State, the former military governor of the defunct Western Region, late Lieutenant Colonel Francis Adekunle Fajuyi, was killed by the counter coupists in Ibadan, the then capital of the region, alongside late General Aguiyi Ironsi, the then Head-of-State.
Lt.-Col. Fajuyi left behind only a ramshackle building for his family.
Nobody or institution, either of military or civilian dispositions, ever remember to think about the living condition of the family of the late national hero, whose only memorial object in his remembrance, despite him gallantry, was the Fajuyi Memorial Park, Ado Ekiti, where he was buried.
However, in 2008, a newspaper did a feature on the late Fajuyi’s family and the ramshackle house the wife was living in then.
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, then former governor of Lagos State, read the article. He felt depressed.
What?
He reached out to an Ekiti indigene, Babafemi Ojudu, and gave him the task of rebuilding the house.
Not only to a befitting dwelling place but a museum!
The house was commissioned for use in 2009.
And you say God will punish him? No. God will only bless him
And Ekiti people will pay him back in his coins – generosity – with their votes come February 25, 2023, at the presidential election.
He will receive an avalanche of generous votes come 25th February, 2023.
He will receive empathy votes.
He will receive an affectionate vote.
•Ojo- Lanre is a member of the
Special Media Projects and New Media, All Progressives’ Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Council, PCC.
