{"id":8971,"date":"2023-12-27T13:03:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T13:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/i-lost-a-worthy-co-fighter-for-south-west-cause-makinde-mourns-akeredolu\/"},"modified":"2023-12-27T13:03:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T13:03:08","slug":"i-lost-a-worthy-co-fighter-for-south-west-cause-makinde-mourns-akeredolu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/i-lost-a-worthy-co-fighter-for-south-west-cause-makinde-mourns-akeredolu\/","title":{"rendered":"I lost a worthy co-fighter for South-West cause \u2013 Makinde mourns Akeredolu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has described Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State as one of the fighters for the cause of the South West region.<\/p>\n<p>Makinde made this declaration on Wednesday, while eulogising the late Akeredolu, following news of his demise.<\/p>\n<p>Akeredolu \u2018s death was announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Makinde in his reaction, said he and Akeredolu were both at the vanguard of the struggle which led to the establishment of the South-West Security Network, codenamed Amotekun.<\/p>\n<p>Makinde, in a statement made available to newsmen, said the death of the former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) is a sad loss to Yorubaland and Nigeria in general.<\/p>\n<p>He maintained that Akeredolu\u2019s stance on issues that border on South-West\u2019s regional integration and progress is a lesson for leaders, adding that the deceased would be missed.<\/p>\n<p>Makinde said: \u201cI received with great sadness the news of the death of my brother, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, the governor of Ondo State and chairman of the South-West Governors\u2019 Forum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI condole with his wife and children as well as the Government and people of Ondo State over this sad loss. In Aketi, South-West has lost a dogged fighter and courageous leader who worked hard for the peace, prosperity and progress of the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have also lost a worthy co-fighter for the South-West cause because we were both at the vanguard of the struggle, which birthed the South-West Security Network Agency codenamed Amotekun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAketi\u2019s fervent and unrelenting stance on issues that border on South-West\u2019s regional integration and progress is a lesson for leaders. He will be sorely missed.<\/p>\n<p>I lost a worthy co-fighter for South-West cause \u2013 Makinde mourns Akeredolu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has described Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State as one of the fighters for the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4544,259,15],"tags":[4545,263,180],"class_list":["post-8971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-akeredolu","category-makinde","category-news","tag-akeredolu","tag-makinde","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}