ANA Mourns the demise
of Chief Elizabeth Fagunwa
The National President of the Association of Nigerian Authors
(ANA), Mallam Denja Abdulahi has commiserated with the Fagunwa family over the
passing on of the matriarch of the family, Chief (Mrs.) Elizabeth Fagunwa at
the age of 85, saying she deserved to be celebrated in all ways possible for promoting
and keeping the literary legacy of his late husband alive until her death.
Denja Abdulahi stated this in a press release signed and
issued in Abuja yesterday stressing that he was glad that the Late Chief (Mrs.)
Elizabeth Fagunwa died upholding and supporting the cause of her late husband,
Chief D.O. Fagunwa.
Before her death, Chief (Mrs) Elizabeth Fagunwa was an active
stakeholder in Fagunwa Foundation, a foundation founded to promote the literary
works of the Late Chief D.O. Fagunwa.
The concluding part of the release reads “My heart goes to
the immediate and extended family of the Late D.O Fagunwa, I equally pray the
Almighty God grant them all the fortitude to bear the irreplaceable loss.”
