Ovation Magazine boss, Dele
Momodu has described as false a report that two of the people who attended the
80th birthday party of the Nigerian High Commissioner in the United Kingdom,
Justice George Oguntade, have died.
The prominent Nigerians who
attended the party with Dele Momodu include Chief Okoya and his wife, Chief
Olusegun Osoba, Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State and his wife, veteran
musician Ebenezer Obey-Fabiyi, a popular businesswoman Bola Shagaya, and Shade
Okoya who also described the report as false.
Reacting to the report
which says two people died due to COVID-19 and that others are showing
symptoms, Dele Momodu wrote:
“I have just read the story
in Punch newspaper that two people died after Justice George Oguntade’s 80th
birthday celebration in London. It remains a rumour. Only one name Mr ROTIMI
ADIGUN has been mentioned repeatedly with his picture. And no member of his
family has come out to say what killed him officially. I have waited patiently
for the name of the second man who purportedly died and his picture like they
did for Mr Adigun and also the autopsy result, so that I can personally
commiserate with his family.
These are weighty stories
and I can feel the pains of members of the families when the dead is/are not
allowed to rest in peace as a result of some raging satanic rumours.
I even read someone today
who claimed to have spoken to the late Mr Adigun’s wife. But the same person
said the party took place on March 14, 2020. But it was on March 10. I know
because I attended.
I’m not in isolation
because I attended a party in London 16 days ago. I’m in isolation because I
respect the appeal from the Lagos State government for everyone to stay at home
because it is the proper thing for all of us to do at this dangerous moment,
whether you ever travelled or not. And I plan to make the best use of this
unprecedented holiday…
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