Ogun Govt speaks on rumoured death of Ernest Shonekan

The state government said it is a rumour and  far from being true.

The news of the death of former Head of Interim National Government of Nigeria who took the reigns of government from  former military  President Ibrahim Babangida in 1994 after the annulled  June 12, 1994 Presidential election   presumably won by late politician and philanthropist, Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, rocks Egbaland nay Ogun State with many  receiving it with doubt.

The country home of Ernest Shonekan, whose mansion  shares boundary with the  Ogun NUJ Secretariat, Iwe Irohin House, on Gbadebo road,  Oke-Ilewo  Abeokuta, but efforts of reporters to authenticity of the news of the death of Shonekan, their neighbour, were futile.

There was nobody in the compound who could verify it to inquisitive reporters but the call from Ogun state government showed that the elder statesman  is alive.

The Secretary to the State Government, Taiwo Adeoluwa, in a telephone, told reporters on that the former Head of Interim National Government of Nigeria is hale and hearty as the government says, “It is a lie from hell. Baba is alive.”