Goodluck Jonathan condoles Wole Soyinka!

Following the death of the daughter of Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka, Iyetade Soyinka, President Goodluck Jonathan issued a condolence through the office of his special Adviser on Media and Publicity Reuben Abati. 

The tweets read:

Reuben Abati ‏@abati1990

On behalf of himself & the FG, President Jonathan extends sincere condolences to Prof. Wole Soyinka on the death of his daughter, Iyetade.

Reuben Abati ‏@abati1990

President Jonathan prays that God Almighty will comfort Prof. Soyinka and all others who mourn his late daughter, Iyetade.

According to a statement signed on behalf of the family by a former Editor of the Guardian on Sunday, Mr. Jahman Anikulapo and a close aide to Soyinka, Iyetade, a mother of two, died while  receiving treatment for an undisclosed ailment at the University College Hospital, Ibadan,  the Oyo State capital.

 Born on June 6, 1965, the deceased, according to Anikulapo, attended Staff School and Queens School, Ibadan before reading Medicine at the University of Ibadan.

He described Iyetade as an “affable, intelligent and sometimes capricious,” lady who “struggled with her health in recent years.

“In spite of this, she greeted every day with a smile and doted on her two children. She took ill quite suddenly and passed away while being treated at UCH, Ibadan. Iyetade leaves behind two children, both parents, numerous siblings, nieces and nephews,” the statement added.

Burial plans is yet to be disclosed by the deceased family.