By Ayantunde Ayangbayi
Barrister (Prince) Abdullateef Olasunkanmi Fagbemi hails from Ijagbo in Oyun Local Government Area of Kwara State in Nigeria. He is among the prominent and successful personalities in Kwara State, he has held on to his job without compromise. He was called to the bar in 1984, since then Barrister Abdullateef Fagbemi, SAN has kept on breaking new grounds professionally and in different quarters as a renowned lawyer that has made name in litigations and in election petition matters. He attained the highest pinnacle of his profession, years ago as Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), making him join the league of most influential lawyers in the country.
In carriage and comportment, Barrister (Prince) Abdullateef Olasunkanmi Fagbemi, SAN has remain very humble, simple, hardworking, prayerful and Omoluabi personified indeed. He represents the conscience of the downtrodden with sense of loyalty, Barrister Abdullateef Olasunkanmi Fagbemi, SAN is a philanthropist of exceptional calling with golden character. He is passionate for development in general, this is matchless as exemplified in his service to his community through several donations, assistance, self-help projects in his council area and other places within and outside Kwara State.
This journalist is convinced beyond doubts that Barrister Abdullateef Olasunkanmi Fagbemi, SAN is an outstanding achiever who has the energy, intelligence and capacity to offer to the government at all levels of our great country unique advisory services that can move us forward in the right direction. There is no doubt that Omo’oba Olasunkanmi Fagbemi, SAN is a blessing to our generation and to numerous admirers, particularly whose lives he has touched, he remains a blessing.
His amazing lifestyle is thought provoking and needs to be highlighted for all kinds of people and alike to know that life is transient, the erudite scholar/ lawyer is an award winner, with several accolades and letters of commendation/ appreciation for his contributions towards developing many programmes and projects that better the lots of humanity.
No doubt, Barrister (Prince) Abdullateef Olasunkanmi Fagbemi, SAN has created practical possibilities and opened new frontiers’, also expanded opportunities and advanced the course of human kindness in all facets of human endeavors.
The legal luminary sees opportunity where others see challenges. He is a man driven with unquantifiable desire to cast his name on the sands of time in gold. Barrister Lateef Olasunkanmi Fagbemi is a well-travelled Nigerian and compassionate family man with a manifest devotion to families and friends. He is a news and home maker, sports lover with penchant for dressing well without colour riot. An avid art collector, whose hobbies are reading, meeting people, exchange of ideas, a stickler for excellence, he is a jolly good fellow. Finally, a state counsel in Oyo State Ministry of Justice, who does not want to her name in print describes Prince Abdullateef Olasunkanmi Fagbemi as thus, “God’s enviable gift to humanity, he’s an intellectual first among equals, dignity-exuding, integrity-imbued, symbol of hard work, worthy in character and positive example to the world”.
May the presence of Almighty God never depart from his household, as he continues to soar in all his endeavors, Amiin.
*Ayangbayi is a Media Consultant based in Ilorin.
