Bola Tinubu, president-elect, and Atiku Abubakar, have mourned the death of Bola Ajibola, former minister of justice.
Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, has mourned the death of Bola Ajibola, former minister of justice and attorney-general of the federation.He served as the minister of justice during the military regime of Ibrahim Babangida and was also the president of the Nigerian Bar Association
“The former Nigeria’s minister of justice and leader of the bar was an eminent statesman and legal icon whose contributions to national progress and development will be written in gold. “In his later years, he devoted himself to the promotion of Islam and expansion of the frontier of knowledge through training and development of cutting-edge manpower for national growth with the establishment of Crescent University in Abeokuta, his home-town.
“Although we had hoped and prayed that Ajibola would still be around with us for a little more time to witness the dawn of a new era of renewed hope for our people in a better, stronger, more secure and more prosperous Nigeria, however, we thank Almighty Allah that he lived to an advanced age and left behind important legacies.”In his condolence statement, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar described Ajibola as a man of impeccable virtue..
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