Buhari, Obasanjo to attend Osunkeye, ex-Lafarge Africa chairman’s 75th birthday

President Muhammadu Buhari, former President Olusegun ‎Obasanjo and other eminent Nigerians from all walks of life are expected to converge on Lagos next week Monday to celebrate Olusegun Oladapo Osunkeye, the boardroom guru and Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International as he clocks 75 years.

Osunkeye, a former chairman of Nestle Nigeria plc, GlaxoSmithKline Nigeria plc and Lafarge Africa plc, now LafargeHolcim, will be celebrated at 75, at the Archbishop Vinning Memorial Cathedral, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos on Monday, September 7.

A statement by Intermedia Communications Company, notes that Osunkeye will mark his birthday with members of the diplomatic corps, traditional rulers, top government functionaries, the academia, the clergy and well wishers.

The event, according to the statement, will start at 10am ‎and ends at noon, and is also expected to feature Lords and Temporal, including primate of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, His Grace, Nicholas Okoh, Anglican Archbishop of Lagos Metropolitan, Most Rev. Abiodun Akinde as well as other foremost industrialist and Co-founder of Egba Science Education Foundation, Olatunde Abudu and many other captains of industry.

The Alake and Paramount ruler of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo, Okukenu IV  “is expected to lead the royalty train even from across the Niger to celebrate with the octopoidal entrepreneur who midwived Nestlé N12 billion plant at the Sagamu interchange as well as the N70 billion, 2.5m metric tons latest production line of Lafarge WAPCO at Ewekoro, all in Ogun State among other landmarks in the manufacturing sub-sector of the economy.”

Osunkeye, former Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of Pilot Securities, volunteer mentor and consultant to Nigerian youths through FATE foundation, has been instrumental to the building of primary healthcare centres in Sabongida Ora in Edo State, Karu in Nasarawa State and Somolu in Lagos State, wielding his influence as chairman of the board of directors of GlaxoSmithKline.

Meanwhile,  the entire gamut of the organized private sector, under the umbrella of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria and allied business concerns have sent a message of goodwill to Osunkeye, who was a Past President of the Nigeria Employers Consultative Assembly (NECA), on his birthday.