Kwara State Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq has expressed condolences on the demise of Professor Mohammed Akanbi, SAN, Vice-Chancellor of Kwara State University, Malete.

After a short illness, Akanbi was allegedly found dead on Sunday night.

Details about what caused his illness were still hazy at the time of writing this story.

However, Abdulrazaq mourned the late KWASU VC in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Rafiu Ajakaye, on Sunday night, which read in part, "Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has described as painful and shocking the death of the Vice Chancellor of Kwara State University (KWASU), Prof. Muhammed Mustapha Akanbi, SAN."

“We submit to the decree of Allah who gives and takes. It is against that backdrop that we mourn the Vice Chancellor who answered Allah’s call tonight. He was a true and humble servant of Allah and we beseech our God, the Oft-Forgiving and Merciful, to grant him al-jannah Firdaus,” the Governor said.

“The professor of law was a colossus who played the leading role to open a new chapter of academic excellence and greatness for KWASU. Our condolences go to his family, immediate and extended, to KWASU and the rest of the academic community, and to members of the bar and the bench in Kwara State and across the country,” the statement added.

Akanbi will be buried in his country home in Ilorin according to Islamic rites on Monday, November 21, 2022.