Burial Planning Committee Chair, Oloye Lekan Alabi Reveals How Late Ibadan Biz Mogul Bode Akindele Will Be Buried
Plans are in a top gear to give the late Ibadan-born business mogul, Sir (Chief) Bode Akindele a befitting burial. Sir Bode Akindele, a business magnate of international repute and the Baba Ijo, Methodist Church, Agbeni, Ibadan, it would be recalled, died on Monday 29th June, 2020, at the age of 87. A burial planning committee has, however, been set up by the family, and chairing this committee is no other person than the Ekefa Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oloye Lekan Alabi. No other person could have been more appropriate for the role than Oloye Lekan Alabi. He shared a robust, cordial relationship with Sir Bode Akindele in his lifetime. Theirs was relationship, spanning over 36 years, that transcends being an Ibadan men. So, by the virtue of their relationship, Oloye Lekan knows and understands the standards Sir Bode Akindele represented in his lifetime. No wonder he had written 9 tributes in honour of Sir Bode Akindele. In which he captured his relationship and exp