The burial plan of Sir Michael Agbolade Otedola, the former governor of Lagos State and father of billionaire owner of Zenon Petroleum and Gas Limited, Femi Otedola, is out. The funeral ceremony, which is being planned to be very stately and classy, will take place on May 28th, 29th and 30th.
Pa. Otedola died on Tuesday, May 6, at the age of 87 years,
of a stroke related ailment that has kept him from public glare for the past five years.
Pa. Otedola was born on July 16, 1926 at Odoragunsin in the Epe Local Government Area of Lagos State. He won a scholarship to study Journalism at the Regent Street Polytechnic, London and graduated in 1958.
When he returned to Nigeria in 1959 he became an information officer in the Western Nigeria Government and was later appointed the Editor of the Western Nigeria Illustrated. In 1961, he moved to the Western Nigeria Television/Western Broadcasting Service and in 1964, he joined Mobil Oil Group of Companies.
Pa. Otedola continued as a consultant to Mobil after leaving the company in 1977 before joining politics. He was elected governor of Lagos State from 1992 to 1993 on the platform of the National Republican Convention.
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