Late Pa Awolowo’s Wife Died At 99

Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo, was born on November 25th 1915, she died a little over two months to her 100th birthday.

Mrs Awolowo, wife of the late premier of the defunct Western Region, passed on more than four years after rumours spread like wildfire around the country indicating she transited. That was on June 22, 2012.

The matriarch of the Awolowo dynasty, Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo, is dead, her newspaper, the Nigerian Tribune, is reporting. She was 99.

The report said she died some hours ago.

The chairperson of the African Newspapers of Nigeria, died 28 years after her husband, Obafemi Awolowo, who fondly described her as his jewel of inestimable value, passed on.

Mr. Awolowo, a widely respected politician and Yoruba leader, died in 1987.