National Chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Chief Bisi Akande, has commiserated with the Ekiti State Government on the death of renowned economist, Professor Samuel Aluko, who passed away on Monday in a London hospital after an illness.
The ACN national chairman noted that not only Ekiti people but also the whole country and the world would miss the deceased whom he described as a friend, a dependable ally and an intellectual.
Signing the condolence register, Akande wrote: “I come to commiserate with the Government on the passing of Professor Samuel Adepoju Aluko – a foremost economic intellectual, an honest and loyal associate of Chief Obafemi Awolowo and a dependable adviser to Papa Adekunle Ajasin. No matter how old, a useful citizen should never die. Aluko’s work shall live forever”.
Accompanying the National Chairman was his South west Deputy National Chairman, Senator James Kolawole.