Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, has condoled with the people of Ekiti State and family of Chief Akin Omoboriowo, over the death of the veteran politician and elder statesman, describing the death as shocking.

Mimiko, reacting to Omoboriowo’s death through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Eni Akinsola, said the death was a huge loss to his home state in particular and Nigeria in general.

He noted that the death was especially shocking because the deceased was not reported to be sick.

The governor saluted the late politician’s contributions to the development of the old Ondo State when, in the second republic, he served as deputy governor to the late Chief Adekunle Ajasin.

“The contributions he made at that time to the development of Ondo State are still green in our minds'”, Mimiko added

‘Çhief Omoboriowo is dead but we are comforted that he lived a fulfilled life and wrote his name in the sands of time. I pray God to grant the family and the people of Ekiti the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss”.