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Jide Akinbiyi: Man of history drops into history
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By Banji Ojewale
AFTER his long engagement in enriching and enchanting encounters with history, Prince Edward Olajide Akinbiyi has himself slipped into the annals, passing on at the age of 87. He died in Lagos on Tuesday, February 9, 2021, leaving behind a mixed multitude of mourners and merrymakers. It has been a rare hybrid of emotions at the loss of one man.
The point is that all deaths, even if timely at a grand old age, bring up criers. Akinbiyi didn’t depart a young man, but there are those grieving who would have loved to relish more of his old age tenderness, compassion and charity. They claim they got to meet the prince of Ibadan only lately. And then suddenly, he was cut off from them. Surely, they have reasons to be sorrowful.