Tinubu eulogises late Onukaba
A former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said that the media have lost one of their best and brightest with the death of the former Managing Director of Daily Times, Adinoyi Ojo Onukaba.
He also said the community of creative writers has been robbed of one of its leading dramatists and the rank of politicians one of its progressive minds.
In a special tribute to the late Onukaba, the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader said the late foremost journalist, author and politician was full of life and “ever bristling with ideas”.
The tribute personally signed by Tinubu stated: “Since I was apprised of the heart-rending news of the sudden and unexpected demise of my very good friend and associate, Dr. Adinoyi Ojo Onukaba, I have been unable to bring myself to conceive of him in the past tense. Onukaba was so full of life, ever bristling with ideas. Following the recent Day of Tributes and eighth day Fidau prayers held in his honour by his professional colleagues and friends in Lagos and Abuja respectively, I find myself unable to live in continued self-denial.
“Indeed, Onukaba died in very painfully sad circumstances on Sunday March 5, 2017, four days before his 57th birthday. I had known Onukaba over the years, since the early days of his most illustrious journalistic career. Our relationship, however, grew stronger with the advent of democratic rule in 1999. As Governor of Lagos State, operating from the Government House in Alausa, Onukaba, who served as Managing Director of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc, was a shouting distance down the road in his Agidingbi office. Our paths crossed regularly as he sought to breathe a new lease of life into the nation’s foremost newspaper conglomerate.