Ernest Adegunle Oladeinde Shonekan, 1936 – 2022

After his secondary education at Church Missionary Society grammar school in Lagos, he studied at the University of London where he bagged a degree in law in 1962 and was called to the UK Bar the same year. He later attended the Harvard Business School in the United States of America.Shonekan returned to Nigeria and joined the legal department of the United African Company of Nigeria in 1964 where his dedication and business acumen showed through.

Saying that Nigeria owed him a huge debt of gratitude, President Buhari noted that Chief Shonekan demonstrated to all that the love for country and commitment to her development, peace, and unity transcends the trappings of office and the transient nature of political power, adding that even at the twilight of his life he never stopped believing and working for a prosperous and democratic country.

The man who left a crisis-riddled nation in Shonekan’s laps, General Babangida described him as “an uncommon patriot” who he credited for midwifing his regime’s principle of a free-market economy. Babangida recalled how Shonekan used to give his ruling council tutorials on budget, planning and management of national resources, each time he was invited to their session.

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