The Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola has commissioned a newly built ultra-modern mosque to immortalise his late mother, Alhaja Wulemotu Arike Oyetola.
Oyetola who was joined by the Asiwaju Musulumi of Yorubaland, Edo and Delta, Chief Tunde Badmus to commission the mosque on Friday disclosed that he commenced the project two years.
He said: “In 2006 when my mother was installed as Iyalaje Adini of a Central Mosque, I asked her what she wanted me to do, she said I should invite my friends to donate for rehabilitation of the mosque. I was able to donate N6.5 million and we used the entire money to rehabilitate the central mosque.
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“So I now thought about what she would have loved me to do if she were to be alive and I concluded that it is important for me to build a central mosque in her memory.”
He added: “Ramadan is a month of peace and a month of forgiveness, we should ensure that we keep with everybody and we should continue to pray for our leaders, the president, the governors, the ministers of the country, and everyone.”