Governor of Osun State, Ademola Adeleke has expressed shock at the news of the death of the South West Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Honourable Soji Adagunodo, describing his passage as “a sore loss not only for the party, but also Osun state”
In a condolence message signed by his Spokesperson, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, Adeleke rued the loss of Hon. Adagunodo as painful going by his contributions to the PDP in various roles.
Hon. Adagunodo passed on to the great beyond on Monday after a brief sickness in the United States of America.
” Late Hon Adagunodo is a friend whom I supported to become the state Chairman of the PDP and who in turn backed me to emerge a Senator of the Federal Republic. It is a bitter loss and we will badly miss him”.
“The news of the passing of Hon. Adagunodo was devastating to me as a person. I note Hon. Adagunodo contributions to our great party as the Chairman in Osun state and I celebrate the impacts he effected as the South West Chairman of PDP,” Adeleke noted.
The Governor described the loss of Hon. Adagunodo as a huge one and difficult to express in words, conveying his heartfelt condolences to his immediate family and everyone touched by his sudden demise.
The statement partly reads: “I share in the grief of his family and loved ones, recalling with fondness the good memory he shared with our great party as well as the impacts till his last moment on earth.
“It is our prayer that Almighty God be pleased with his soul and grant Hon. Adagunodo eternal rest just as every loved ones have the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss”, the stateme
nt concluded.