President commiserates with Osinbajos, sends delegation to Ikenne.

President Muhammadu Buhari has placed a personal call to the family of the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, to commiserate with them over the death of matriarch of the Awolowo family, H.I.D. Awolowo.

This information is contained in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday by the president’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu.

The late Hanna Idowu Dideolu Awolowo is the grand mother of Dolapo, the wife of the Vice President.

The statement quoted the president as describing the deceased as "an institution in her own right, and a model of motherhood’’.

President Buhari said that the late Hanna Idowu was one of the greatest female political icons in Africa who was deservingly revered for her remarkable virtues.

According to the statement, President Buhari has equally dispatched a powerful federal government delegation to condole with the Awolowo family at Ikenne, Ogun.

The delegation, which met the Vice President and other members of the Awolowo family, was led by Malal Abba Kyari, the Chief of Staff to the president.

He was accompanied by the Secretary to the Federal Government (SGF), Babachir David Lawal, the Chief of Defence Staff, Lt. Gen. Abayomi Olanishakin and other government functionaries.

The delegation extended his condolences to the family, the government and people of Ogun over the death of H.I.D. Awolowo.