TRIBUTE: Oladiran Alabi Bids Farewell to Late Ibadan Elder, KO ‘Latunji
TRIBUTE: Oladiran Alabi Bids Farewell to Late Ibadan Elder, KO ‘Latunji.
Member, Oyo-State House of Assembly, OYHA(Hopeful), from Ibadan Southwest Constituency-I, come 2023, on the platform of Accord Party, Honourable Oladiran Alabi has sympathised with KO Olatunji’s family and Ibadan Land over the passage of the Noble Ibadan Elderly Statesman, Baba Karimu Oladele Olatunji.
Pa Olatunji died Friday morning at 92.
The astute observation, ‘Diran Alabi in a condolence message issued in Ibadan described the death of the progressive leader and noble Ibadan statesman as a monumental loss to the legal profession, Ibadan Land, and Oyo state in general.
In ‘Diran Alabi’s words,”Personally, Baba KO ‘Latunji was a father to me, and also, he was a life patron to our Club, Ibadan Youth Front. Baba was a great Ibadan elderly statesman. He came, he saw and he conquered. He was highly intelligent and cordially accessible. Indeed, we will miss Baba’s wise counsel.
“On behalf of myself and supporters in Ibadan Southwest Constituency-I and across the world, I identify with the bereaved family and I pray that may God comfort them. May He grant them fortitude to bear the irreparable loss, and repose Baba’s Soul in paradise,” he added.
A legal luminary and community leader, Chief Karimu Oladele ‘Latunji was born on 23rd September, 1930. He attended N.A. Olubadan School for his elementary education from 1939-1946 before moving to Ibadan Grammar School, for his secondary education from 1949-1954.
His quest for quality education, according to an opinion on Nigerian Tribune, further landed him at Holborn College of Law and Commerce in London from 1958-1960 and was at the same time an external student of the University of London in 1960. The astute, learned fellow was called to the English bar in July 1962 and enrolled at the Supreme Court of Nigeria on the 4th October, 1962. As a Barrister and Solicitor, Chief Latunji had a stint in legal practice from 1962-1963 with Chief Ayo Rosiji and Co and Chief Kola Daisi and Co. Today, Chief K.O. Latunji is a senior partner of Chief KO. Latunji and Co. Solicitors and Advocate and Notary Public, a firm of private legal practitioners based in Ibadan
