The matriarch of the Awolowo family, Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo, H.I.D, is dead.
Fondly called mama by many, H.I.D died on Saturday at age 99 AND would have turned 100 on November 25 this year.
She reportedly died shortly after a meeting on Saturday with her family members.
Yeye Oodua, as she is also popularly known, was said to have been a part of the meeting for the planning of her 100th birthday.
Mrs. Awolowo, wife of the late premier of the defunct Western Region, passed on more than four years after rumours spread like wildfire around the country indicating she transited. That was on June 22, 2012.
The chairperson of the African Newspapers of Nigeria, died 28 years after her husband, Obafemi Awolowo, who fondly described her as his jewel of inestimable value, passed on.
Awolowo, a widely respected politician and Yoruba leader, died in 1987.
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