The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has mourned human rights activist, Mohammed Fawehinmi, saying he did justice to the memory of his late father, Gani Fawehinmi.

This is as he commiserated with the family of the deceased over the death of their son.

This was disclosed in a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, on Thursday.

“The President condoles with Ganiat, mother of the deceased, and the entire family, urging them to find comfort in God, who gives and takes, and to draw consolation in the fact that the departed robustly fought a debilitating condition, which confined him to the wheelchair for many years.

“His body may have been broken, but his spirit was virile, agile, and he kept the flag of the family flying, doing justice to the memory of his late father,” the statement read in part.

The PUNCH gathered that the 52-year-old passed on in Lagos on Wednesday.

Mohammed Fawehinmi was a graduate of Business Administration of the University of Lagos in 1991.

He obtained an LLB degree from the University of Buckingham, England, and was called to Nigerian Bar in 1998.

Before his death, Fawehinmi was the Head, Mohammed Fawehinmi’s Chambers, Director, Nigerian Law Publications Limited, Director, Books Industries Nigeria Limited, and Director, Gani Fawehinmi Library & Gallery Limited.