 Spukukia datu wada prijeho wa, helya kwa aerti, kwa ji wadu, Uwe O'uwo O'uya Ko, Uwe O'uya Ko, Uwe N'a Wadu wadi Kwa kwa wala kwa nakatawe, nifuwa hwa kiwa wadu, kwa mwadi Uwe Westousi Yeah, na kwa wala nisha, Mainu energite kwa kwa kwa kwa nisha, dke kwa uwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa wala in office from January 26, 2006, to December of that same year, and then again from May 2007 to May 2011. He significantly improved the revenue, the entirely generated revenue of your state from a small 300 million at that time to 1 billion Naira in 8 months of becoming governor. Instituted impactful programs like the Homegrown Empowerment Scheme known as the Community Link Advancement Program, CLAP, and he put in place a security architecture that guaranteed peace and security everywhere in your state. Otumba Dr. Christopher Adebayo alawa kala practically demonstrated what is possible when you have creativity and compassion and when those are brought into governance. Since his transition in January, I've read and I've heard several glowing tributes to his memory and the common refrain running through all of those tributes has been the attestation to his uncommon generosity. Many testified that his resources were available to all, to everyone who asked for help and his home was a place where anyone could come for help. He was indeed a very simple and humane gentleman who practiced politics with an open mind and just like many of his assages have testified and the governor of your state has just testified and in the various articles and tributes recalling his soldier, Otumba alawa kala was a politician who knew how to be a political opponent without being an enemy. He was always respectful of the views and beliefs of others. There is undoubtedly a lot more to be said about his generosity and in material terms those things that money cannot even buy. At a personal level I can attest to his generosity with his time and counsel. I met him very many years ago through his nephew, my friend and brother, Professor Yelowo Yewo, senior advocate of Nigeria, currently attorney general and commissioner for justice for your state while we were lecturers at the University of Lagos and at that time he treated us of course as his younger brothers and was always ready to even give us just a few dashes or what you might call a few enablements. And after becoming the vice presidential candidate of the APC in 2014 he was one of those that I immediately turned to for advice. I recall how in a boistrous laughter as he usually has he said, ah, Professor, he shared with you, he shared with you, Professor Mwagigereo, being a hardened veteran of the game himself he must have been wondering if I had the stamina to cope. He went on to give me some unforgettable advice about what he thought I should do till he due his last breath allow Akala Nevesis to avail me of his quality counsel and words of encouragement by a way of phone call or pep talk whenever we meet the good people of Obumashia will miss the kindness, the compassion and the love of this trusted and revered leader with his broad smile and hearty laugh and there is no doubt that this illustrious political actor from Obumashia land struck and by some extraordinary means was able to sustain a deep connection with the people not surprisingly, in any political calculation everyone knew that wherever Alawa Akala pitched his tent is where Obumashia will go but his political influence and reach when beyond party affiliation and what we see today the multi-partisan colors of those of us who are gathered here today to bid him farewell is evidence of the fact that he belonged to all this is a solid reflection of his goodwill and the goodwill that he enjoyed across political divides, ethnicities and faiths Alawa Akala served his people and his country all through his life from the career and the police force to the chairmanship of the Obumashia north local government to deputy governor and then governor of Oyo State he put everything he had into public service and this is why today the people of Obumashia or your state and the nation gather to pay him the very highest respect of a well regarded patriot and a faithful servant of the people and so on behalf of the president of the federal republic of Nigeria President Mohammad Buhari the government and good people of Nigeria I hereby express our sincere condolence to the Alawa Akala family and we pray that the almighty God will comfort and uphold you always and bless his memory forever in Jesus name I hereby express our sincere condolence to the Alawa Akala family and we pray that the almighty God will comfort and uphold you always Amen