Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the late former Attorney General of the Federation, Prince Bola Ajibola was his role model and a man of uncommon integrity.
Osinbajo said this at the interment of the late elder statesman in Abeokuta on Sunday, according to a statement released by his spokesman, Laolu Akande.
“He was a man who believed that the worth of a person is what he is able to give back to society and he demonstrated it throughout his own life,” he said.
“So, I think it is a life that ought to be celebrated and it is a life that is an example to us all.
“Something he demonstrated while I worked with him was a belief in this nation, a belief in our country as a united nation.
“But more importantly, is that one could serve in the public domain with integrity and with altruism. He demonstrated this all his life.
The vice president praised the late Ajibola for his devotion to education.
“At some point in his life, he told me that he wanted to establish a university, which turned out to be the Crescent University, and that he was going to sell everything that he owned to establish that university,” he said.
“I recall that he sold all the houses that he owned and several other things to be able to establish Crescent University. This place where we stand is also a place he established for primary education and secondary education.”
Osinbajo was accompanied by his wife, Dolapo, to the Islamic Mission for Africa, where Ajibola was interred.
The late Ajibola was the president of the Nigerian Bar Association from 1984 to 1985. He was also Nigeria’s attorney-general and minister of justice from 1985 to 1991. He became a judge of the International Court of Justice in 1991 where he served for three years.
