Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday said that
the
recent tension in the state over a court ruling on the use of
hijab in Osun secondary schools was doused as a result of
a
word spoken by the state governor, Rauf Aregbesola.
Obasanjo
did not disclose what exactly the governor said, but he said
it
confirmed his neutrality in the matter.
Obasanjo, who was represented by Dr. Femi Majekodunmi,
was
speaking in Odeomu in Osun state at the handover of a
multipurpose hall and a library donated by Senator Yinka
Omilani to mark his 80th birthday.
“He (Obasanjo) is in China now. He said the governor
(Aregbesola) said something which confirmed his neutrality
in
the matter; that word went a long way in dousing the tension
which recently heightened in the state,” Majekodunmi said.
Gov. Aregbesola was present at the event alongside other
dignitaries like Chief Shuaib Oyedokun, Chief Ebenezer
Babatope, Senator Olasunkanmi Akinlabi; and former
Minister
of Police Affairs, Jelili Adesiyan.
The multipurpose hall has a capacity to seat 1000 persons,
while the library can accommodate 100 persons at a time
according to the donor, Yinka Omilani. He said there was the
need to revive the reading culture among the youths and the
old
ones as well.
“The library has been moderately kitted with books for a
start
and I wish to seize this opportunity to call on my fellow
educated indigenes of Ode Omu to continuously seek ways
of
improving the library,” Omilani said.

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