Buhari, 36 Govs And 60 Bishops To Attend HID Awolowo’s State Burial

President Muhammadu Buhari and 36 governors have been invited for the final burial rites of the late matriach of Awolowo, Chief Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo.Also, no fewer than 60 Bishops, 300 Clerics, including Pastors Adejare Adeboye and Tunde Bakare of the Redeemed Christian Church of

God, RCCG and Latter Rain Assembly respectively, have been commissioned to participate in the two-week burial programme of HID Awolowo.Addressing newsmen at Ikenne home of the
Awolowos on the burial programme in a joint press conference, Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Taiwo Adeoluwa and Chairman, Central Planning Committee, Dr. Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosumu disclosed that the burial activities will span eleven days.Both Awolowo and the state government disclosed that the activities would commence November 15 and end November 25, the  late Awolowo’s  100th posthumous birthday.According to Adeoluwa, the State government has invited all the 35 other state governors and secretaries to state government to join her in the special fanfare organised for the celebration of the late matriarch at Sagamu International Stadium on November 23.According to him, the day was set aside for the people of the state to  honour the departed Yeye Oodua of Yorubaland.She read the programme to include: November 15, at 12 pm lying-in-state at Park Lane, Apapa, Lagos, followed by Christian interdenominational service.Monday, November 16, her body would depart to Ibadan for lying-in-state at Oke Bola, Ibadan.November 17-24 lying-in-state at Ikenne, home town of the Awolowos.Interment and reception will hold November 25 also at Ikenne.