17th July, 2014
Abiodun Onafuye, Abeokuta
Prince Abdul Rasheed Adesupo Adetona, the immediate younger brother of Awujale and Paramount ruler of Ijebuland, Oba (Dr.) Sikiru Kayode Adetona who died on Thursday 17 July will be buried today.
Prince Adetona died early morning Thursday at his 3, Tokunbo Omisore street, Off Wole Olateju Crescent, off Admiralty way, Lekki Phase One residence in Lagos.
The deceased, 71, was the founding President of the Business Recovery and Insolvency Practitioners Association of Nigeria, BRIPAN. He was the only remaining male sibling of the revered monarch.
Until his death, he was a chartered accountant and a member of the defunct Hope Family, who during the 1999 general elections, pulled out from the then Alliance for Democracy, AD, to joined the All Peoples Party, APP.
A family source who confided in our correspondent revealed that he was hale and hearty before the news of his death was received at the palace.
P.M. News reliably gathered that Prince Adetona died exactly 20 years after the death of his mother. Awujale’s mother died on the 17 July, 1994.
A friend of the family, who asked not to be mentioned said he spoke to him yesterday for over an hour, only to be told that he died this morning.
“Prince’s death is still a shock to me because we spoke for over an hour yesterday and he explained how he planned to remember his mother, who clocked 20 years that she died today. He even planned to pay for a full page advertorial in some newspapers and we talked about many other things and just last night, I was told that he had died, just like that, is that how someone dies? “, the old man said.
An Islamic organisation, Quareeb has approached the family for a programme this weekend at Ijebu Ode, which the group planned to use to mark the 20th anniversary of the monarch’s mother.
Another family source informed P.M. News this evening that the deceased may be buried tomorrow but he was not sure where he will be buried.
He was a devoted Muslim in his lifetime, who supported the cause of Islam a lot both at home front and overseas.
He was survived by a wife and a son.