Pageantry, flourish as HID Awolowo goes home

The entombment function of the Matriarch of the Awolowo line, Hannah Awolowo, could best be depicted as a fair loaded with intriguing minutes reports Samuel Awoyinfa

Shakespeare, in his fantastic, Julius Ceaser, couldn't have been more right when he said, 'When homeless people pass on, there are no comets seen. The sky themselves burst forward the demise of sovereigns.'

In fact, the later piece of the adage relevantly depicted the internment of the female authority of the Awolowo family, Chief (Mrs) Hannah Idowu Dideolu, who went on to grandness on Saturday September 19, 2015, at her Ikenne nation home, in Ogun State.
Dignitaries from varying backgrounds turned the Ikenne home of the Awolowos to a Mecca of sort. Religious associations were not left out, while lawmakers of all shades were not left behind.

Centennial birthday, a smidgen past the point of no return

Before mom in the end went on precisely 28 years after her spouse's demise, arrangements were on for her century birthday festivity.

Unmistakable Nigerians, especially in the South-West, had been drawn nearer to send in their goodwill messages for examination in front of the normal century birthday.

Likewise, September 16, 2015, that Mama passed on, she had gone to a meeting held in her home where the issue of her birthday was talked about.

The Aso ebi for the festival was prepared, and as uncovered by her most youthful girl, Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosunmu, "Mother had officially sewn her own dress."

Be that as it may, the family later met and concurred that she ought to be covered on her birthday.

Internment ceremonies and different tributes

Mother's remaining parts were kept in a funeral home for quite a while before the entombment rituals started. On Sunday fifteenth November, a Christian wake keep was held for her at the Park Lane, Apapa home of her spouse.

On November 16, her remaining parts made a stop-over at her spouse's Oke Bola home in Ibadan, and Agbeni Methodist Church. This was the place they both adored while they were in Ibadan, keeping in mind Baba Awolowo was the Premier of the old Western Region.

Around the same time, the remaining parts encased in a transparent coffin, were taken back to Ogun State.

The state senator formally got the remaining parts, joined by her youngsters, and some excellent kids and extraordinary stupendous kids, at the Sagamu-Interchange.

Social troupe from the state service of society and tourism sang laments, to usher Mama back home even as the senator alluded to her as 'girl of Africa.'

The senator requested that the transparent coffin be lifted out of the Mercedes Benz funeral wagon into an open-back police stylized Land Rover van.

While a few inhabitants of the town, youthful and old, pursued the motorcade to get a look of the expired's remaining parts, a few others peeped through their windows.

No more potholes in Ikenne

On the off chance that nothing else would have made the streets in Ikenne to be motorable, Mama's demise and obviously, her entombment service, conveyed positive thoughtfulness regarding the streets prompting Ikenne and those inside of the town.

Palliative works were carried on the streets prompting the Awolowo's home while another layer was added to the in-street into Sagamu from the Benin-Ijebu Ode Expressway.

Likewise, out and about from Sagamu to Ikenne, palliative works were completed on it, to make it motorable for the visitors who thronged the goodbye project sorted out by the state government at the Gateway International Stadium, Sagamu, for the expired.

Security specialists in abundance

The Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, verging on moved to Ogun State a week ago. He told columnists that he was in the state to see that the security game plan on ground for the memorial service and last entombment of the authority of the Awolowo family was in top rigging.

For over 11 days, aside from normal policemen, mob police, men of the directorate of state security administration, Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, Op-Mesa, and Vigilante Service, were deliberately situated around the living arrangement of the Awolowos and the streets prompting the living arrangement. They could likewise be seen at the regions of the Benin-Ijebu Ode Expressway.

Mother's remaining parts land in style

The thought of bringing the remaining parts of Mama HID Awolowo in a bright steed driven carriage drew the consideration of the visitors who sat outside as it touched base for the memorial service. It was driven by trumpet-blowing policemen in stylized clothing. Numerous visitors faced catch a look of it, while some recorded the scene on their telephones for family.

The steed driven carriage by Broadway Funeral, which conveyed Mama's coffin to the congregation, drummed up some excitement. As the carriage entered the congregation premises, picture takers and cameramen concentrated on it.

Buhari's entry reasons blend

When the chopper that brought President Muhammadu Buhari showed up on the horizon of Ikenne, the inhabitants started to yell 'Buhari ti de' which means Buhari has arrived.

Couple of minutes after the fact, a long caravan of sparkling autos rose up out of the Mayflower Secondary School end, and went through the street adjacent to the congregation, and the individuals who got a look of the President started to serenade 'Sai Baba, Sai Baba', until the escort made a temporary route to Awolowo's home.

The President, who was verging on stuck to his Vice, Yemi Osibajo, waved to the group who cheered him.

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Oshiomhole as well

The Lagos State group landed in a style as they touched base in an extravagance Marcopolo transport.

The pioneer of the All Progressives Congress, and previous legislative head of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu was in that company. He had scarcely landed from the transport that the droning of 'Jagaban, Jagaban' leased the air. Acclaim artists and drummers swooped on him as well. Columnists too were not left out.

The Edo State senator, Adams Oshiomhole arrived a tad bit later, however he similarly drew inquisitive looks and yells from the gathering of people who sat under the tent outside the congregation.

The representative who came close behind with his Cape Verdean magnificence, on the other hand, favored on this day, to walk a few meters in front of his wife, Lara who needed to revive her progressions to get up to speed with her spouse.

Abah Folawiyo's companions skiped

Style originator, Abah Folawiyo, mother of the grandson of the late HID Awolowo, Segun and her companions, perfectly dressed to the teeth, walked into the venue and they were the cynosure of everyone's eyes.

She and her companions may have thought they would effectively stroll into the venue with no bother yet then, that was not to be.

Obviously, Folawiyo was permitted to enter the venue and her companions? They were ricocheted! They needed to join different visitors at the tent gave outside the congregation.

Mold and style second to none

It was a variety of magnificence that was shown at the internment function recently Mama HID Awolowo. Diverse shades of aso ebi were in plain view as the women specifically, looked brilliant and exquisite.

It was as female dignitaries and wives of identities needed to out sparkle each other as they all ventured out looking brilliant and embellished in costly adornments.

Awolowo's compound, not free for all

The individuals who couldn't get access into the congregation premises would have thought the case ould be distinctive once they get to the gigantic Awolowo's nation home. In any case, no, it was the same story as it unquestionably was not free for all passage.

The individuals who did not have the 'all entrance card' were not permitted into the far reaching compound of the Awolowos.

The venue just played host to Very Important Personalities, for example, President Muhammadu Buhari, the governors and others in that coterie.

Wide screen projectors surge boulevards

The individuals who sorted out the internment service really needed for all intents and purposes everyone in the group to witness it as clearly, the congregation and the Awolowo family house wouldn't contain the throngs of individuals that came.

All things considered, the occupants were pleased to see wide screen TVs situated at key spots in the town where individuals could watch the procedures of the internment function.

Saturday Punch saw such a large number of inhabitants who stayed stuck to the TV sets and observed all that continued amid the function.

Field day for telephone hoodlums

Insignificant cheats truly grinned home amid the function as a few visitors lost their telephones to them. Pick stashes who had blended with the group at the congregation premises, carried off telephones and wallets of people. An exile and a few others lost their handsets to these urchins.

Who wears mom's shoes?

Mother lived to a ready age of 99, and she cleared out her foot shaped impressions in the sands of time. However, then, Mama has come, gone and was given a great internment service that would be discussed for quite a while. Notwithstanding, the inquiry that was for all intents and purposes on everyone's lips was 'who might venture into Mama's huge shoes?'

For her eldest girl, Rev Omotola Oyediran, the inquiry is an intense one as she told writers amid a media preparation, in the blink of an eye before the entombment service that, "Mother and Papa's shoes are too huge for us, however we beg that God will help us."