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The Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism in Oyo State, Mr Toye Arulogun, disclosed this on Tuesday. He said the move follows promises made by Governor Abiola Ajimobi’s administration to immortalize Fajuyi during the 50th Adekunle Fajuyi Memorial Lecture and 90th Post-humus birthday organized by various groups in Ibadan.
The state government had pledged to further immortalize the late hero by facilitating the construction of a monument and park in his honor at the very spot where he was killed in Lalupon.
Representatives of the Oyo State Government led by Arulogun in the company of the traditional rulers of Lalupon paid a visit to the site where the late Fajuyi and the late former Head of State, Major General Aguiyi Ironsi, were assassinated during the bloody coup of July 1966. There, they said that the gesture became imperative, considering the gallantry and selfless service the former military administrator displayed at the face of death, which projected the virtues of honour, bravery and loyalty.
Arulogun noted that although a previous administrations in the state had immortalized the late military governor by naming a road after him, the opportunity presented by the availability of the spot where he and his supreme commander were killed fifty years after, is not just a divine but golden one that the present administration will not allow to slip by.
“The Oyo State Government has therefore taken the onus upon itself to further honor the worthy patriot to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of his death”.