Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has charged the younger generation in the country to learn from the life and time of late Professor of Medicine, Oladipo Ogunlesi, and live up to the high values necessary to build institutions.
Osinbajo stated this during the funeral service of the late first Professor of Medicine in Nigeria, held at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Sagamu, on Friday.
The vice president said that the late Ogunlesi lived a life dedicated to public service.
According to him, the late professor of Medicine lived a life completely dedicated to public service that had strong values like hard work, selfless service, transparency and propriety.
“The likes of Prof. Ogunlesi and those of his ilks challenged this generation to live up to the high values necessary to build institutions and our society,” he said.
In his remarks, Ogun Governor, Dapo Abiodun, described the late professor as a deep intellectual and an astute administrator who lived a good and faithful Christian life.
Abiodun noted that the late Professor of Medicine was also a caregiver and a community man.
The governor said that the late professor was the first Nigerian to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Physicians, London.
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