My daddy was hypertensive – Feyi Agagu

Mr Feyi Agagu, the first son of the late Dr
Olusegun Agagu, a former governor of
Ondo State, on Saturday said his father was
hypertensive.NAN reports that Agagu, who
returned from United States on Thursday,
reportedly slumped in Ikoyi, Lagos, where
he was having a meeting with Ondo
indigenes on Friday evening.”He just had a
medical examination, which showed that he
had a little cholesterol, and was
hypertensive.”There is diabetics in our
family, but it’s nothing major; it was just
something he had been dealing with for
the past 10 to 15 years. So, there was no
inkling that something was about to
happen,” Agagu said.According to him, his
mum has lost her best friend and her
husband. He confirmed that his father
passed away in Lagos on his way to St
Nicholas Hospital.He added that his father
had the usual illness that comes with age,
“so there was no stand out cause for his
passing”.“He lived a simple but a fulfilled
and happy life. He left amazing memories
and fantastic legacies behind.”I will miss
the friendship, I will miss the advice; he
was pretty much anything any wife, son or
daughter could ask for in a father.”He was
a mentor to many, a brother, a benefactor;
I’m sure a lot of people will miss him,” he
said. Agagu said the family had just
returned for their annual two and a half
weeks family vacation and during that time
his father showed no sign of illness.”I guess
when it’s time to go, when your maker
comes to get you, when he brought you, he
did not ask anybody, so he can take you
when he sees fit,” he said.He said that
arrangements for the burial were yet to be
made. In his response to the development,
Chief Olagunsoye Oyinlola, a former
Governor of Osun State, said he was
“grieved”. “We met in politics and he
remained a very nice senior colleague and
when he came back two days ago, we
talked about a meeting tonight,” Oyinlola
said on Saturday. He said that he would
miss everything about his late colleague,
who was the perfect gentleman, who
always cared for the welfare of others. “I
asked him if he would be coming to Ibadan
and he answered no, he then invited me to
meet on Saturday in Lagos, unfortunately
that was not to be,” he said. Oba Rilwan
Akiolu, the Oba of Lagos, described the late
Agagu as an unassuming, brilliant and
hardworking governor, who served the
nation meritoriously. (NAN)