Diri, others pay tributes to late Madam Igali

Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, and others, at the weekend, paid glowing tribute to the late Madam Fanny Patricia Igali, mother of the former Secretary to the State Government, Godknows Igali.

Diri; his wife, Dr. Gloria Diri and Justice Ama Diri, who attended the service of songs in honour of the late Igali, described her as a woman that did not discriminate and took all as her children.

Diri stated that the late matriarch raised her children with values and had a legacy in the person of Ambassador Godknows Igali and his siblings.

“Mama was clearly the woman in Proverbs 31, which is the virtuous woman, and I’m speaking not only as Governor of Bayelsa State, but also as one of her sons in-law, because her first daughter is my cousin’s wife,” the governor stated.

Speaking on behalf of other children, Ambassador Igali, who is the Chairman, Governing Council of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, said her mother was a virtuous woman, whom the entire family would miss.

“To us children, she was a virtuous woman, she was unique and we will truly miss her prayerful life. As children, we feel we lost the canopy that is covering us even though we know that God is one covering us.”

Mama Igali died at the age of 85 on July 28, 2022, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.