Olusegun Dada, special assistant to President Bola Tinubu on social media, has lost his mother Ifejola Dada.
In a statement issued on Thursday by his special adviser on media and publicity, Ajuri Ngelale; Tinubu commiserated with Dada over the incident.
He joined the friends and well-wishers of the Dada family in mourning Mrs Dada “who was an outstanding educator and devoted years of her professional life to providing quality and affordable education for the least privileged members of society.”
Tinubu noted that as the president of the Association for Formidable Educational Development in Nigeria, her remarkable contributions to the provision of affordable access to quality education at the grassroots will be remembered for generations to come.
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He said, “Her memory remains a blessing to the many disadvantaged children who benefited directly from her selfless service as an educator.”
He urged Olusegun, his siblings and his extended family, to find solace “in the very worthy and timeless legacies of hard work, patience, forbearance, charity, and selflessness that have characterized the life of Mama Ifejola Esther Dada.”
The president also encouraged them to work hard to honour her impact on the education sector by doing good to others and impacting lives by taking care of fellow Nigerians. He also prayed for the peaceful repose of the soul of the departed and for divine comfort for the family she left behind.
