The Fadairo Royal family of Owu-Abeokuta will be celebrating their patriarch, Pa Adebowale Fadairo, on Thursday, July 9 at Grailland Iju Hills, Lagos where his body will be interred.
Pa Fadairo, who would have been 78 years old on July 21, passed on last Saturday in Lagos after a brief illness.
He was head of chemicals marketing at National Oil and Chemical Marketing Company (now ConOil Plc), a subsidiary of Shell Petroleum Development Company, where he retired in 1998 after 18 years of meritorious service in the oil sector.
He had previously worked as senior marketing executive at Berger Paints Plc, which he joined in 1977 after a stint at the Customs and Excise upon completing a master’s degree in Chemistry at the Governors State University in Chicago, United States.
Pa Fadairo spent his retirement years running Flowale Farms, which specialised in large scale animal and crop farming of international standards.
Widely travelled, he spent the last decade leading the Fadairo Descendants of Amororo Ruling House as the olori-ebi (chairman) and spearheaded innovative programmes.
Under his charge, the Fadairo Descendants launched into the global scene with its Family Tree hosted on MyHeritage website with hundreds of family members’ data incorporated. It is one of a handful of families having such sites in Nigeria.
During the leadership of Pa Fadairo, the right previously denied the family in contesting for the Olowu of Owu-Abeokuta throne was restored.
According to the Fadairo Descendants’ acting chairman, Kola Fadairo, the departed “loved all and sundry in the family and was always looking out for their good. We will miss his dearly.”
An old school mate at Methodist Boys’ High School, Lagos, Rev. Peter Kayode Omole, described his bosom friend of over 63 years, as a mix between being rascally and gentle.
The former general secretary of the Fadairo Descendants, Muyiwa Akintunde, described Pa Fadairo as a leader in a million.
“He was a stickler for time and paid attention to details. He was totally committed to the family celebrating whenever we celebrated and sharing our grief when that came upon us,” he said.
Fadairo is survived by five children, nine grandchildren, brothers, sister, nieces and nephews.
