The President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has expressed sadness over the death of Tijani Adeyemi, who was the Senate Correspondent of Tribune Newspapers. This was disclosed in a statement posted on the official X handle of the Senate President on Friday.
It read, “In a statement issued on Thursday, October 5, through his Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Eseme Eyiboh, the Senate President lamented that Adeyemi’s death had robbed the nation of one of the richest handlers of the institutional memory of the National Assembly.”
The statement added that in a letter to the wife of the deceased, Mamunat Adeyemi, Akpabio said, “Though your husband and I were not particularly close, my information is that he was very peaceable and gentle in all his dealings”. The institutional memory of the National Assembly and his rich flair in legislative reporting shall surely be missed. “On behalf of my distinguished colleagues, I pray God to comfort you and your four children.” It was reported that tragedy struck on Wednesday when Adeyemi died of cardiac arrest in one of the National Assembly shuttle buses.
