The Lucky Aiyedatiwa Campaign Organisation Foot Soldiers (LACO-FS) on Tuesday expressed lamentation over the death of Dr. Paul Akintelure, one the leaders of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State, who was also a governorship aspirant.
The organisation in a statement by its Convener, Dr. Oladipupo Okeyomi, said Akintelure’s passage was as painful as it was benumbing, considering his impactful imprints in growing the APC not only at the state level but also in the national scene.
Okeyomi, widely known as Carry Go, in the statement issued through the LACO-FS State Director of Information, Mr. Kayode Fasua, said the campaign organisation had suspended its itinerary for the week, in honour of the departed leader.
“We grief for this sudden passage of our great leader, Dr. Paul Akintelure, whose contributions to not just APC but above all, party politics and democracy in Nigeria, cannot be quantified.
” We recall with nostalgic feelings how he, in the dark days of military rule, teamed up with now President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to ensure the enthronement of democracy in Nigeria.
” It’s quite sad that he left us at a time he was most needed for consolidation and progressive inroads; but who are we to query God?”
Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State, the LACO-FS, and the entire people of the state, he added, commiserate with the deceased’s immediate family, the people of Igbotako in Okitipupa Local Government area from where he hailed, and the Nigerian political class and the medical profession, on the departure of Akintelure.
Recall that the late Akintelure, a notable physician, was in 2013, running mate to Mr. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN), now deceased; who later became the Governor of Ondo State in 2017.
(E-signed)
Kayode Fasua,
State Information Director, LACO-FS
