President Goodluck Jonathan
has described a former Spokeswoman to
former President Olusegun Obasanjo,Late Mrs Remi Oyo as a woman of virtue.
President Goodluck Jonathan
made this assertion yesterday through his spokesman, Dr Reuben Abati who led
State House correspondents to the residence of the late NAN Managing Director
on a condolence visit.
They were received by the husband
of the late Media Icon.
Meanwhile this was President Goodluck Jonathan’s
initial condolence message to her family.
President Goodluck Ebele
Jonathan has received with immense sadness, news of the passing away of one of
the most eminent Nigerian female journalists and former Managing Director of
the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Dame Felicia Oluwaremilekun Oyo.
On behalf of his
family and the Federal Government, President Jonathan extends sincere
condolences to her husband, Vincent, her children, Otome and Okiemuote, her
surviving siblings and other relatives.
The President
similarly commiserates with the Nigerian Guild of Editors who Dame Oyo served
most admirably as a two-term President in the course of her trail-blazing
journalism career, the management and staff of NAN as well as the many
colleagues, friends and protégés she garnered in her very fulfilled life.
President Jonathan
joins them in mourning Dame Oyo who having attained great success in a
profession hitherto dominated by men, patriotically entered national service as
Senior Special Assistant (Media & Publicity) to former President Olusegun
Obasanjo in 2003 and served with great distinction as the first female Press
Secretary to a Nigerian Head of State until 2007.
The President
believes that although she was already much honoured in life with accolades and
awards including Officer of the Order of the Niger, Dame Oyo will always be
remembered and continually honoured in posterity for her exemplary professional
life, her inspiring leadership qualities, motherliness and generosity, her
immense patriotism and her remarkable transformation of the News Agency of
Nigeria during her tenure as the agency’s Managing Director.
He prays that God
Almighty will comfort her family and all who mourn Dame Oyo, and grant her kind
soul peaceful repose in eternity.
Reuben Abati
Special Adviser to
the President
(Media & Publicity)
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