ADIEU MOHAMMED FAWEHIMI: A SAD SIMILARITY BETWEEN LATE CHIEF GANI FAWEHIMI S.A.N AND LATE CHIEF OBAFEMI AWOLOWO S.A.N. BY AGBESANWA FELIX OLUWASEUN.

ADIEU MOHAMMED FAWEHIMI: A SAD SIMILARITY BETWEEN LATE CHIEF GANI FAWEHIMI S.A.N AND LATE CHIEF OBAFEMI AWOLOWO S.A.N. BY AGBESANWA FELIX OLUWASEUN.

As activists are in grief of  the death of Late Chief Gani Fawehimi (S.A.N) son, Mohammed , I want to call your attention to one sad similarity about Chief Obafemi Awolowo and Chief Gani Fawehinmi. 

It will certainly help our leadership and others away from here. When we learn from history we prepare ourselves to stand in a safer zone and make our strategy thick.

The first son of Chief Awolowo was Segun. A first class law graduate from Cambridge University, UK. He was just getting qualified to begin law practice when his father was going through the furnace of persecutions from the enemies of progressive politics in Nigeria in early 1960’s. His father felt consoled to receive his son to stand in his defense after the Nigeria state denied Chief Awolowo access to his two lawyers from UK.

So sad and depressing that Segun Awolowo had a ghastly motor accident along Lagos-Ibadan road and was instantly crushed to death. This brought another dashed hope to Chief Awolowo’s aspiration to seek freedom from politically motivated incanceration. It takes an extraordinary man, packed full with divine grace like Chief Awolowo, to quickly overcome the deadly blow life dealt him. 

Till death, Chief Awolowo never could forget this irreparable loss..!

To Chief Gani Fawehinmi,  Mohammed, also another law graduate of Reading University in UK had a fatal motor accident along the same Lagos Ibadan Expressway in 2003. Millions of naira went into sustaining his life but he remain on wheelchair throughout the rest of his life.

This terrible incapacitation greatly affected Gani and changed the course of his plan for posterity.

Though Gani Fawehinmi, like Awolowo, survived the deadly blow of life after short depression, yet it left an unfilled hole in their legacy for posterity…

Leaders and aspiring leaders of today may profit from the history to guard their loins well.

Mohammed fought hard, within his realm, to sustain the fire kindled by his father for justice and just causes. It was a battle tied around so much bodily pains and limitations.

Good night Mohammed.

When I remember Mohammed, I remember justice ooooo, ha heeee, I remember passion.

Agbesanwa Felix Oluwaseun.

Writes from Ilisan Remo

Ogun State.