Ogun state government on Tuesday evening denied the rumoured death of former Head of Interim National Government of Nigeria, Chief 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.”
