Kwara central senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 elections, Mallam Saliu Mustapha has donated a 2-bedroom semi-detached apartment to the wives of the late Islamic cleric, Sheikh Abdulganiy Aboto Al-Adaby.
The APC flag bearer also promised to empower the two wives of the late cleric with fund to enable them to begin businesses to support their families.
The deceased Ilorin-based Islamic clerics Sheikh Aboto and two of his aides were swept away by last week Friday floods caused by torrential rains in the state capital.
Personnel of the State Fire Service recovered their corpses from a river in Ilorin, Kwara State capital city on Saturday of the following day.
It was gathered that the cleric died without a house, leaving two wives and 17 children in a rented apartment.
Mallam Mustapha, who doubles as the Turaki of Ilorin, equally promised to give financial assistance to the families of the two aides that died with the cleric.
He was also reported to have left a paltry 15,000 naira in his bank accounts.It was gathered that Mustapha conveyed the gesture to the Khaliful Adabiya, Sheik Mohammed Kamaldeen.
Kamaldeen recalled that the Turaki had sometimes last year privately donated a huge sum of money for the completion of the Sheirk Kamaldeen Islamic University on the request of the Board of Trustees of the University.
Residents of Aboto Alfa, in Asa local government area of the state where the late cleric hailed from, have applauded the gesture.
A community leader, Alhaji Liadi Mogaji of Mogaji’s compound, Aboto, said this is yet another thoughtful intervention from Mallam Mustapha, who he described as a benevolent giver.