Rhodes-Vivour, UI, Usman Dan Fodio University dons, Dambatta, Morkaz Salam mourn late Isolo prince, Adefaka

By ADEWALE MUHAMMED

Politicians including Lagos State Governorship Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) for the 2023 election, Mr. Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, academics of the University of Ibadan and Usman Dan Fodio University Sokoto, Professor Abiodun Ayodele and Dr. Akib Adekunle Jimoh, respectively, have joined the numerous sympathizers mourning the late Alhaji Kasumu Yesufu Adefaka, a former banker of defunct Trust Bank and Cooperative Bank, who passed on in the early hours of Saturday January 4, 2025 at the age of 104.

Others who also mourned the centenarian were former Director of Press, Nigerian Federal Ministry of Finance, Mallam Salisu Na’inna Dambatta, who wrote to the Adefaka Family on behalf of his family in Kano, the senior lecturer of Morkaz Salam Islamic Centre, Ojokoro, Lagos State, Uztadh Nurudeen Jubril.

In his message, Rhodes-Vivour described the passing of Alhaji Adefaka at well spent years of 104 as one that is symptomatic of a successful exit and then prayed for the repose of his soul in Al-Jannah Firdaus.

Professor Abiodun Ayodele of the University of Ibadan, in his message to the family, said, “I write to commiserate with you on the death of your father, Alhaji Kasumu Yesufu Adefaka. I bless God for a fulfilled life lived by him. I pray that God in His infinite mercy accepts his loving soul in heaven. God will be with you and your entire family and grant you the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss of Papa. Accept my condolences.”

In his own message, Mallam Salisu Dambatta, said, “I hereby commiserates with your family on the loss of your father, who was called by the only true one God, the Almighty Allah to return to Him.

“I supplicate by pleading with the Almighty Allah to erase his errors totally and reward his good deeds abundantly by granting him abode in the best aljanah.

“I pray to Allah to give his family and the Ummah the courage to bear the pains of losing him with patience and in the belief that aljanah is his eternal abode, in shaa Allah,” Salisu Na’inna Dambatta and family sympathized with the late centenarian’s surviving family.

The Morkaz Salam’s senior lecturer, Nurudeen Jubril, who called to make his own condolence message, said, “For the mere fact that we know some of you, his children, there is no doubt in our mind that Baba performed his duty as a great parent over you, just like we also have solace in the fact that he lived a long live to die at age of 104. We rejoice with him having attained that long life before his death, and with you the children that you are lucky to have him as your father.

“As Allah made him live long to 104 serving his Lord, humanity and his society in good faith, I pray that you too, his son, your elder and younger brothers and sisters, as well as all his grandchildren and great grandchildren live longer than he did in good health, prosperity and good deeds to meet the favour of the Lord here and in the hereafter,” he prayed.