A former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Olatunde Obanikoro has commiserated with Nigerians, Muslim Ummah and the legal profession in entirety on the demise of the former Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Prince Abdul Jabar Bola Ajibola.<\/p>\n
Obanikoro in a statement, according to his Special Assistant, Sulaimon Adebiyi, described the death of the frontline Jurist as an irreparable loss to Nigeria, the Islamic community, global legal community, academia and royalty. <\/span><\/p>\n The All Progressives Congress Chieftain noted that the elderstateman was, until his last breath, a strong pillar of religious moderation, an icon, one of the global Titans, a beacon of peace and a pillar of moderate religious leaning and preacher of peace, whose whole life was of noble service to the nation, having served meritoriously in various capacities as an accomplished public servant”<\/span><\/p>\n Obanikoro who prayed for the repose of the octogenarian’s soul, sought for the immortalization of the globally celebrated Jurist, whose life and times whose worthy life remain a source of inspiration to the younger generation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Olatunde Obanikoro has commiserated with Nigerians, Muslim Ummah and the legal profession in entirety on the demise of the former Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Prince Abdul Jabar Bola Ajibola.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6853,6854],"class_list":["post-13204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-global-jurist","tag-prince-bola-ajibola"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13205,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13204\/revisions\/13205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}