Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has mourned the death of the lawmaker representing Mushin II Constituency, Hon. Sobur Olayiwola Olawale.
He described the death of the lawmaker which happened in Jos, Plateau State on Tuesday, as shocking and a great loss to the State.
The Governor commiserated with the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa and the lawmakers, as well as family, friends and associates of Hon. Olawale.
Hon. Olawale was until his death the Chairman House Committee on Local Government and Community Relations.
Sanwo-Olu in a condolence message on Wednesday, described the late Olawale as a committed lawmaker and democrat, who served the state and his constituents passionately until his demise.
He urged people to see Olawale’s death as the will of Allah and take solace in God for a good life spent by the deceased.
The Governor sympathised with the people of Mushin Local Government, the deceased’s constituency, and the All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders and members.
He said: “The death of Hon. Sobur Olayiwola Olawale is a great loss to the Lagos State House of Assembly and the State as a whole. I am saddened by his death. He was a loyal party man and a committed democrat and lawmaker. He died at a time when members of his constituency and indeed the entire Lagos needed his service most.
“There is no doubt that Hon. Olawale would be missed by the political class, particularly his immediate constituents in Mushin II Constituency, whose lives he had impacted positively in numerous ways while serving as member of the Lagos State House of Assembly.
“I pray that Almighty Allah grants the soul of our beloved Sobur Olayiwola Olawale eternal rest in Aljannah Firdaus, and grant his immediate family, friends, associates, and Lagos State House of Assembly, the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.”
Meanwhile the remains of the late Hon. Olawale, popularly called Omititi was committed to the earth today after a Muslim prayers.
Sunrise recalls that Hon Sobur Olawale had slumped while joining others to make their way to the Jos Airport for their return flight back to Lagos after the flag-off of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Presidential Election campaigns in the Tin City.
The flag-off ceremony which was theme: Hope renewed, was historic. The Tin City, known as the Home of Peace and Tourism, had produced the late Chief MKO Abiola as the Presidential flagbearer of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the aborted Third Republic as well as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential flagbearer Chief Olusegun Obasanjo in 1998 ahead of the fourth republic in the 1999 Presidential election.