The Bible says that; sweetness is the remembrance of the righteous, while he was alive, the Aare Onakakanfo of Owu Kingdom, Prince Bolu Akin-Olugbade was a man who was larger than life. With Palatial mansions and condominiums littered across the world, He lived like a king, wining and dining with the high and mighty in society. He was generous, stylish and cosmopolitan.
He was a man of style and poise whose built frame goes unnoticed. The trained lawyer never hid his passion and love for the popular high-cost Rolls Royce automobile. Anytime a new edition launches, he is ever ready to break the bank to secure the newest edition. With the sobriquet; ‘Mr Rolls Royce’, he is one of the world’s largest collectors of Rolls Royce auto.
During his lifetime, Olugbade was a darling of society. Musicians and praise singers sing his praise to the high heaven as they know he would dole out largess for them. Some even have a special anthem for him. He was also known to be a scholar who bagged a PhD in Company Law from the University of Cambridge. Despite every attempt to avert his death as a result of the deadly global pandemic which broke out in 2020; the dreaded Grim reaper came and took him on a sojourn of no return at Paelon Hospital in Ikeja Lagos on the 13th of January 2021. The news of his death spread like wildfire as many who he often fund their welfare was seen crying profusely saying that indeed the good people don’t last. His family was thrown into mourning also his close friends, business partners and associates. Today the 13th of January marks two years after his demise. If he were to be alive; to have to survive the grip of the deadly virus, he would have gone to the church for thanksgiving and might have also cooped the latest version of the 2022 Rolls Royce Cullinan to celebrate his survival or even jet his immediate family abroad for a private celebration but he is no more but his memory still lingers on in the minds of those he has passed through one way or the other.
