Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has mourned the doyen of accounting profession in Africa, Akintola Williams who passed on Monday, noting that he was so pervasive and consistent for his contributions and influence to the accounting professionals in particular and the nation in general.
Penpushing reports that Obasanjo in a condolence message added that the deceased stateman was an icon and an unusual specimen of human being as well as a nationally-renowned and globally-acclaimed accountant.
The former President who affirmed his relationship with Wiiliams over 50 years, who died barely weeks after celebrating his 104 years in his Lagos residence, said he had directly and indirectly enjoyed his advice and support
“I had directly and indirectly enjoyed his advice and support. In his cucumber cool, sober and unruffled disposition, he inspired you and warmed you to himself. His reflections and piercing insights and insistence for truth and accountability cannot but inspire you’, Obasanjo said.
‘ I often admired his calm mien and disposition and when I asked a friend, “why is he always so calm, composed and methodical? He answered, “It is because he has strong internal antenna for controls!”, he stated
‘He was so pervasive and consistent in his contributions and influence that the accounting professionals in particular and the nation in general must keenly feel his departure. He was an icon and an unusual specimen of human being as well as a nationally-renowned and globally-acclaimed accountant’.
‘I must confess that my interactions with Mr. Akintola Williams were tangential for a number of reasons. When those of us in the military in the province like Kaduna, where I was, came to Lagos in the mid-1960s, we were looking at the likes of Mr. Akintola Williams at a distance with great administration and in awe”, he wrote
Penpushing further reports that Obasanjo added that, having lived for 104 years, the late Williams cannot, by any stretch of the imagination, be considered to have died an untimely or premature death.
“I pray that the Almighty will grant him sweet repose and give you and other members of his family the strength to bear the heavy and irreparable loss,” Obasanjo was quoted as having said in the statement.
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