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Wale Igbintade
President Bola Tinubu and former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, have paid glowing tributes to veteran pro-democracy activist and elder statesman, Chief Ayo Opadokun, as he marked his 80th birthday.
The tributes were contained in separate messages commemorating Opadokun’s decades-long contribution to the struggle for democracy and good governance in Nigeria.
