The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) as well as the Lagos State Governor have expressed sadness over the death of human rights activist, Mohammed Fawehinmi.
President Buhari submitted that Mohammed did justice to the memory of his late father, Gani Fawehinmi with the life he lived.
This was disclosed in a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, on Thursday.
“The President condoles with Ganiat, mother of the deceased, and the entire family, urging them to find comfort in God, who gives and takes, and to draw consolation in the fact that the departed robustly fought a debilitating condition, which confined him to the wheelchair for many years.
“His body may have been broken, but his spirit was virile, agile, and he kept the flag of the family flying, doing justice to the memory of his late father,” the statement read in part.
On his part, the Lagos Governor also commiserated with family and friends of the deceased, describing his death as a colossal loss to the civil society movement in Nigeria.
In a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Gboyega Akosile, on Wednesday, Sanwo-Olu said Fawehinmi, like his father, was persistent in the fight for the rights of the Nigerian people.
According to Akosile, “Sanwo-Olu added that the late Mohammed did not live under the shadows of his father as he had grown to become a dependable comrade.
Mohammed 52-year-old passed on in Lagos on Wednesday.
He complained of difficulty in breathing this morning and was taken to the hospital and that was all,” a source was quoted as on QED
Mohammed Fawehinmi was a Graduate of Business Administration of the University of Lagos in 1991.
He obtained an LLB degree from the University of Buckingham, England, and was called to Nigerian Bar in 1998.
It could be recalled that Mohamed was involved in a ghastly motor accident in 2003 in the process he sustained a spinal cord Injury.
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