Mr Gabriel Oladotun Olatoye, younger brother to the former house of representative member from Akinyele/Lagelu federal constituency in the National Assembly late Hon Olatoye Timitope Sugar has described the 365 days without him as turbulent.
Oladotun made this known in an Interview with CEOAFRICA during the one-year anniversary of the demise of late Hon Sugar, the great philanthropist on the 9th March 2020 at Hon Olatoye Sugar Memorial Acade, beside Everlasting Hotel, Iwo Road-Ojoo Expressway, General Gas, Ibadan.
Speaking on the one year without Sugar, Dotun said “to be honest with you, the 365 days without him has being turbulent because Hon Olatoye Sugar was a great pillar to our family, the church of God, friends, community”, State and Nigeria at large.
“He was a community leader, an active humanitarian to the core, a great philanthropist who will go out of his way to satisfy the masses at the expense of his immediate family and self-comfort”.
“There are so many international trips that he missed from the National Assembly that he said he would have loved to convert that amount of money to organize empowerment programs for people living with disabilities, different communities even for federal government establishment that have been forgetting for years”.
Oladotun equally disclosed that there were so many projects that he can’t even remember which thelate House Committee Chairman of urban and regional planning was about to execute before he was murdered.
He said “therewere more than 40 transformers that he wanted to distribute to people before his life was cut shorts”.
“He told me he wanted to see a situation where there wouldn’t be beggars on the streets of Oyo State anymore”.
“He wanted to see a situation whereby less than 45-year-olds would occupy over 80 per cent of the elective positions in Africa beyond Nigeria. That was why he wrote a book in 2017. It was the last book he wrote titled, ‘The might of an African youth in leadership’.
“It will be hard even in many generations to come for us to have someone like him who died for the conviction that he believed in because he was a man that was self-convinced and you know that someone that is convinced cannot be confused”.
“Hon Sugar believed in the ideology of the masses, he believed in a government that is a representative of the people and he died for his ideology. He believes in a government that will represent the true wellbeing and yearnings of the people and he died for that ideology” he stated.
Gabriel concluded by saying that the family is disappointed that the government has failed to remember what Late Olatoye died for.
Dotun further said "one year after the death of Late Hon Sugar, the present administration has failed to remember what Late Hon Olatoye Sugar died for, nothing has been named after him."
