Akpabio Mourns Dead Tribune Reporter, Writes Widow

The President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has joined the family of late Tribune reporter, Tijani Adeyemi to mourn over his sudden demise.

Akpabio, on Friday, in a statement through his Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Hon Eseme Eyiboh, described Adeyemi as a doyen of the National Assembly press corp.

Naija News recalls that on Wednesday, the late Adeyemi, a Senate correspondent of the Tribune Newspaper, died of cardiac arrest in one of the National Assembly shuttle buses.

The Tribune reporter had boarded one of the shuttles from the main gate, known as Mopol Gate, around 10 a.m., and by the time he got to the checkpoint, he was discovered to be lifeless.

He was pronounced dead when he was rushed to the clinic of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.

Adeyemi’s body was kept at the National Assembly’s clinic, following which he was laid to rest at the Gudu Cemetery in line with Islamic rites.

In a letter to late Adeyemi’s widow, Alhaja Mamunat Adeyemi, the Senate President said, “Though your husband and I were not particularly close, but my information is that he was very peaceable and gentle in all his dealings.

“To his colleagues, he was a very diligent journalist whose assiduous dedication to duty made him one of the most established journalists in the National Assembly.

“I am informed that he qualifies to be so described as the doyen of the National Assembly Press Corp, having covered the Fourth National Assembly from about its establishment.

“Though he has crisscrossed the media terrain from broadcast to print under different organisations, it was the outstanding streak in legislative reporting that made the various organisations he worked for to post him to the National Assembly.

“The institutional memory of the National Assembly and his rich flair in legislative reporting shall surely be missed.

“On behalf of my Distinguished Colleagues, I pray God to comfort you and your four children.

“I join you to pray for the repose of his soul in Aljannah Firdaus.”