The President of the Yoruba Council
of Elders (YCE), Chief Idowu Sofola, is dead.
Sofola, a prominent jurist, bencher
and former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), died on Friday
night in Lagos.
He was 84.
He took over as YCE’s chief from
Maj.-Gen. Adeyinka Adebayo who died in 2017.
The Secretary-General of the YCE,
Dr. Kunle Olajide, confirmed Sofola’s death on Saturday.
Olajide said the YCE was grieved and
shocked by Sofola’s death, who he said, was not ill or bedridden.
“I spoke with him few days ago,
congratulating him on the appointment of his son as a high court judge and we
were planning an event to host him.
“The icon is leaving us at a
critical time particularly in Yorubaland as the country prepares for the 2019
general elections,” the YCE secretary-general added.
“He was an intelligent man of Yoruba
extraction and the vacuum he left behind will be difficult to fill.
“It is great shock to me and YCE; a
strong advocate and believer in true federalism, brilliant lawyer and defender
of human rights and democracy,” he said.
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