President Muhammadu Buhari has
congratulated multi-talented entertainer and gospel music maestro, Evangelist
Ebenezer Obey, ahead of his 75th birthday, which comes up on Monday.
Mr Femi Adesina, the president’s Special Adviser on Media and
Publicity, on Sunday in Abuja, said Buhari’s congratulatory
message was contained in a letter addressed to the celebrant.
In the letter to the evangelist, President Buhari said Please
accept my congratulations, and that of teeming Nigerians, on this occasion of
your 75th birthday anniversary. Chief Commander Ebenezer Fabiyi Obey is a household name in
Nigeria, and even beyond. You have through music flown the flag of our country
proudly in many nations of the world, and you are a veritable ambassador of our
motherland.
The President said Nigerians rejoiced with the septuagenarian at
the auspicious moment, while praying that God would grant him more years of
service to the nation, and humanity. Miliki highlife juju crooner, whose real name is Ebenezer
Remilekun Aremu Olasupo Fabiyi, was born in Idogo, Ogun, 75 years ago,.
It is believed that Obey started his professional career in the
mid-1950s after moving to Lagos, where he formed a band named “The
International Brothers’’ in 1964, playing highlife-juju fusion. Obey has successfully released over 100 albums and the ones yet
to be released are uncountable.
The popular musician, who transformed into an Evangelist, lost
his wife of more than four and half decades, Lady Juliana in Aug. 2011. While celebrating his 74th birth in 2016, Obey was quoted as
saying that; "I never knew I could attain this age, but I have committed
everything about me into the hands of God".
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