09/02/2022
Chief Obafemi Jeremiah Oyeniyi Awolowo
Obafemi Jeremiah Oyeniyi Awolowo GCFR was a Nigerian nationalist and statesman who played a key role in Nigeria's independence movement, the First and Second Republics and the Civil War.
Obafemi Awolowo was the first premier of the Western Region and later federal commissioner for finance, and vice chairman of the Federal Executive Council during the Nigerian Civil War. He was thrice a major contender for his country's highest office.
*How did the son of a farmer attain this height?* As a young man he was an active journalist, editing publications such as the Nigerian worker, among others. He received his bachelors of commerce degree in Nigeria, and travelled to London to pursue his degree in law.
Born 6 March 1909 in Ikenne, Western Region, British Nigeria (now Ikenne, Ogun, Nigeria), he founded the *Obafemi Awolowo Foundation* in 1992 as an independent, non-profit, non-partisan organisation committed to furthering the symbiotic interaction of public policy and relevant scholarship with a view to promoting the overall development of the Nigerian nation.
The Foundation was launched by the President of Nigeria at that time, General Ibrahim Babangida, at the Liberty Stadium, Ibadan.
his most important bequests (styled Awoism) are his exemplary integrity, his welfarism, his contributions to hastening the process of decolonisation and his consistent and reasoned advocacy of federalism-based on ethno-linguistic self-determination and uniting politically strong states-as the best basis for Nigerian unity.
Awolowo died peacefully at his Ikenne home, the Efunyela Hall (named after his mother), on the 9th of May 1987, at the age of 78.
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