Chief Sunday Bolorunduro Awoniyi was a Nigerian politician and tribal aristocrat.
11 Facts About Sunday Awoniyi
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Sunday Awoniyi was the Aro of Mopa, Kogi State, formerly Kabba Province.
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Sunday Awoniyi was born in what is the Mopa-Muro Local Government Area of Kogi State to Pa Solomon Iwalaye and Dorcas Omoboja.
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Sunday Awoniyi began his education at Baptist Day School in Mopa from 1938 to 1944, moving on to Holy Trinity School in Lokoja from 1945 to 1946, and Provincial Middle School in Okene from 1947 to 1949.
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Sunday Awoniyi attended the Nigeria College of Arts, Science and Technology from 1951 until 1956, University College from 1956 to 1959, and the Imperial Defence College from 1970 to 1971.
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Sunday Awoniyi often held up the assassinated premier as an example of good governance, and was known as "Sardauna Keremi", or "little Sardauna".
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Sunday Awoniyi was one of the founding members of the People's Democratic Party.
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Sunday Awoniyi attempted to become chairman in 1999, but was unsuccessful.
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Sunday Awoniyi opposed the Third Term Agenda proposed by supporters of President Olusegun Obasanjo in favor of his re-election, and was attacked at his Abuja house on 12 March 2006 during the debate.
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On 18 November 2007, while being driven from Abuja to Kaduna, Sunday Awoniyi's car flipped over.
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Sunday Awoniyi's funeral was held at Mopa on 15 December 2007, and was attended by former heads of state Yakubu Gowon, Ibrahim Babangida, and Abdulsalami Abubakar, and Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, who represented President Umaru Yar'Adua.