A TRIBUTE TO LATE PA PROFESSOR ALBERT ADEREMI ADEDOYIN DATE: AUGUST 23, 2014

A TRIBUTE TO LATE PA PROFESSOR ALBERT ADEREMI ADEDOYIN

DATE: AUGUST 23, 2014

Our late Professor, lying down there in his final home, was a humane, kind, appreciative, humorous, humble man in his lifetime. He was a renowned scholar, an erudite, a parapsychologist of no mean reputation. He related easily with all and sundry, both young and old, both low and high. He was a father who really valued education and made this trait of his character to manifest in the upbringing and education of his two sons.

Some of us who had direct contacts with him, when he was alive and active, know him as a very good counselor. He would counsel you about life telling you how and why it is essential to truly love your neigbhour  as yourself because that is the only and best way to be at peace with everyone and to hav peace of mind individually, in a family, nationally and in our global village. He hated hypocrisy  and abhorred pretentious love.

He was a giver, he was also generous and kind that out of his meager and low income, he would still give to whoever came to him for financial assistance.

Our late Prof. was a very friendly and humorous personality. If you sat with him in conversations or on lighter mood dialogues, you would almost burst your lungs with laughter; your frowned face with which you came to him would have dissolved into a wide smile and laughter. He loved making everyone around him happy.

He was a very appreciative person. If you rendered him any form of good service, he would shower you with words and sentences full of appreciations. He was always thankful, always grateful.

A typical, repetitive, deep appreciation which our late Prof. told me most times when I sat discussing with him is this, in  Yoruba, “Landlord, that is what he always called me) e ma ba mi dupe lowo Dupe ti o je ki n ni omo laye. Opelope Dupe ti o fun mi ni omo Okunrin lanti-lanti meji, Tolu ati Wole. Emi o le gbagbe Dupe lailai! Modupe O” And then he would heave a sign of relief, showing satisfaction and deep appreciation. Therefore, Mummy Dupe I have delivered this message to you, ma, to let you know how deeply and sincerely the late Professor cherished you even to the end of his sojourn on earth.

As an indefatigable father, our late Professor devoted his entire life to educate his two sons. He gave them sound education and moral instructions, that both of them, Tolu and Wole are now living on. He taught them how to live a successful life; he taught them the secrets of life, I hope and pray that you children will not deviate.

Professor Albert Aderemi Adedoyin, a prince of Ijeshaland, lived on this planet earth as a human being with flesh and blood. He must have had his frailties, his weaknesses of character in living. No one is infallible. Every human being living now has his and her strong and weak traits of character for there is none who is a paragon of virtues.

Here, we commend you our dear Prof. for your good deeds while you lived on this planet of learning and of understanding.

We appreciate God for your living. Indeed, you have come, you have seen, you have achieved and you have conquered. And as you embark on your solitary journey, we pray that you will receive eternal rest over there.

May your gentle soul rest in perfect peace. Adieu to a Great Scholar. Farewell, Pa Albert Aderemi Adedoyin.

“There journeys our noble Prof.

After he had had enough

Of this mortal earth,

Quits, on a lonely flight!

ADIEU

Written and delivered by Mr. A.A. Sosanya