Mr Shonekan, who served as the Head of Interim National Government from August 26, 1993, to November 17, 1993, died in Lagos on January 11 at the age of 85.
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, and other members of the Federal Executive Council, members of the National Assembly, service chiefs, and traditional rulers, among others, also attended the service. “And so it transpired that within the first four and a half decades of his life, Chief Shonekan had established himself as one of the nation’s foremost corporate technocrats and a figure of renown in the boardrooms of many private companies, multinational and indigenous in which he served as chairman and director.
Mr Osinbajo said that in Mr Shonekan’s own words, “he was compelled by a sense of duty and responsibility to accept the role and to give his best in shepherding his country through an experience unknown and unprecedented in our history.” He said that Mr Shonekan lived his life always conscious of and motivated by a burden of duty, as a citizen of considerable privilege, to give back, either in his many philanthropic and civic pursuits or in public service.
He said that the deceased was supportive of all governments and served his nation in this role far above the trenches of partisanship.“His was a consistently calm and dignified presence in the sanctums of the National Council of State and a steady voice of measured counsel to all that sought him out.Earlier in his sermon, Peter Akinola, former Primate of the Church of Nigeria, said that when a true believer died, “he would rise to eternal life”.
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