A former President of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, Alhaji AGF AbdulRazaq (SAN), has sent his condolence message to the family of the late Brigadier-General David Bamigboye, the first Military Governor of Kwara State who died last week.
AbdulRazaq, who is the Mutawali of Ilorin and Tafida of Zaria, said in his message to the wife and children of the deceased that Bamigboye’s death left him with a “deep sense of personal loss”.
He recalled his time as the first Commissioner for Finance in Kwara State under the leadership of Bamigboye from 1967-1972 and noted the deceased was a remarkable leader who was appointed to be the governor of Kwara in 1967 at the very young age of 28 years.
“I had the distinct privilege of serving as the first Commissioner of Finance (later Health) from 1967 to 1972 in the Kwara State Executive Council under the leadership of Governor David Bamigboye. In my personal and official relationship with him, he exhibited sterling qualities of an officer and gentleman in the finest traditions of the military. He was a determined, disciplined and purposeful administrator who inspired the cabinet and civil service to performance optimally. He laid the foundations of the new Kwara State in 1968 by establishing a new civil service and most of the basic institutions of state that stand till date. These include the State Secretariat, Kwara Polytechnic, State House, Kwara Herald, Kwara Hotel and basics infrastructure such as intra-state road networks, Specialist Hospitals, water and rural electricity and other public utility services in major towns,”
AbdulRazaq, a Minister in the First Republic and the first person from Northern Nigeria to become a lawyer and a Senior Advocate, prayed for the repose of the soul of the first governor of Kwara State and that people of Omu-Aran where he hailed from and Nigerians in general will sorely miss his contribution to national development.
