Aremu Was A Rare Patriot – Olawepo-Hashim

Former statesmanlike candidate, Dr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, has described the precocious renowned activist, Comrade Abiodun Aremu, arsenic a uncommon patriot.

Olawepo-Hashim said Aremson was unwaveringly committed to the moving radical of Nigeria and the origin of a amended Nigeria.

He stated this connected Thursday successful Sango Ota, Ogun State erstwhile helium visited the widow of his friend, the Late Abiodun Aremu, Aremson, Mrs Funke Aremson and their children.

The respected revolutionary, Comrade Aremu, passed connected Sunday October 12, 2025.

Olawepo-Hashim, recalled that helium and “Aremson (as we called him)” met successful 1986 arsenic young activists.
Recalling their agelong relationship, the erstwhile statesmanlike campaigner said “I was successful the School of Basic studies and Aremu successful the schoolhouse of Technology, some campuses of the College of Technology Ilorin with the 3rd assemblage being School of Management and vocation.

“Aremu and I belonged to the Youths Thinkers Club, a radical of Patriotic young thinkers committed to a amended Nigeria and the Liberation of our Fatherland from underdevelopment.”

We were besides Joint members of the Patriotic Liberation Movement, a moving people and peasantry focused near radical with starring figures similar M Yaqub (later Rotimi Obadofin), Femi Ahmed, Didi Adodo, Rev Father Ofei, Bona Chizea, Alex Ayatollah, Sunday Ewen etc.”

Olawepo-Hashim further recalled that “Ilorin, wherever Aremson chopped his activistic governmental teeth similar I, was an ideological melting cookware successful the mid 80s. At the Youth and Students fronts were actors similar Shola Olorunuomi present a University Professor, Denja Yaq, Lanre Fulani, Mathew Keyi, Hamzat Ibn Suleman, etc. In the media were Dapo Olorunyomi, Lanre Kawu (Modibo Kawu Ladi Abdul Azeez) who yet became Dapo Olorunyomi’s woman etc etc.”

According to him, a “tribute to Aremson’s unwavering committedness to the moving radical of Nigeria and the origin of a amended Nigeria cannot permission retired the power of the household of patriots that produced him and ideologically birthed immoderate of us.

“Aremu and I had a person bond, we were precise passionate astir change. Some radical accidental each accidental to face the presumption quo was similar a day ceremonial for Aremu and I. Some much uncharitable critics called america “Petty bourgeois exhibitionists”.

In May 1986, helium maintained that “Aremu arsenic President of Students Union led protesting students of School of Technology and I led thousands of students from schoolhouse of Basic studies to protestation the Killing of students successful Abu Zaria successful what became the Ango indispensable spell protest. We were heading to rendezvous astatine the NTA Ilorin wherever we had planned to marque a broadcast, erstwhile we were confronted by a ample detachment of Mobile Anti riot policemen astatine the Ministry of Agriculture successful Ilorin. The Government declared a curfew but we managed to get unneurotic aboriginal astatine my grandmother’s spot to a sheet of mama’s Amala and Ewedu soup.

“Aremson and I kept adjacent interaction and visited with each different regularly implicit the past 4 decades. He precocious survived a stroke, but fell to the cruel battle of a deed and tally driver.

“Why was Aremu crossing the roadworthy each by himself? He had a car which helium seldom utilized due to the fact that the roadworthy to his location was simply impassable, the past clip I visited. Most residents of the assemblage simply conscionable parkland their cars.

“Aremu built his location amongst the mediocre adjacent though I won’t see him poor, helium chose by himself what helium did, not due to the fact that helium lacked amended options.

“His prime was made casual for him by the knowing and practice of his loyal woman who indispensable present carnivore the top value of this loss.

“Aremson was an Internationalist, peculiarly a person of Cuba and a promoter of the Legacy of Amicar Cabral.”

Olawepo-Hashim added that “We were ideologically bonded until his death. Though, we chose antithetic paths arsenic we grew up, he, a nonrecreational revolutionary, I chose entrepreneurship and Mass Democratic Politics, but our cord of committedness to a amended Nigeria remained unbroken.

“A uncommon patriot has fallen, a combatant for the origin of the mediocre is gone, my person has go the excavation of h2o aft the rainfall that passes by the thoroughfare ne'er to instrumentality location again. Adieu, large one!”

He prayed for God to springiness the household the fortitude to carnivore the loss.