01 July 2011 is a day i will never forget, telephone call i cannot erase off my memory. 

Its been 7 years since you- Daddy departed to a higher realm of living which we all aspire for. It has not been easy but indeed God has been faithful to His word,never has He left us nor forsaken us. 'Seye finished Uni in your absence through the dark times Yes God did it!!!We love you sooo much and miss you beyond words. We will continue to keep your legacy and strive to impact lives daily.

Thank you for inspiring us to be a better person daily. Love you daddy beyond words

Dearest John Olusegun Adigun Adetayo,

As we reflect into this one year without you! We see the loneliness, the hurt and heartbrokenness but through it all God is faithful. Not being able to hear your voice is strange, being unable to touch you seems unbearable and the pain of not seeing you is indescribable.

However, we can hear you in our subconscious admonishing and encouraging us not to give up the fight, telling us to lift our heads high in the midst of challenges. Surely Olusegun’s Legacy lives on.

We remember you today, as always as a Man of Integrity and Honour! You were Selfless and had great faith in God. You won the hearts of multitudes, both young and old, with your selflessness and words of wisdom/encouragement.

It is a testimony that you walked the path of your Saviour ‘Jesus’ hence in difficult situations we can as well ask ourselves ‘What would ‘Segun Do?’ Indeed, you are influential even in death!

Even though it saddens our hearts that you did not live long enough to see your children achieve all their dreams or even be well established in their chosen fields, we promise, by God, to do you and our Mother proud in all our endeavours. 

We are grateful to God that helped you to build some friendships/relationships that has been of great support since your demise till date. We can only pray that God meet the needs of such individuals and groups that have supported our family till date.

While we still fail to understand why you had to go so soon and struggle with your absence in our midst, yet we believe He sees all things and knows all things and took you ahead of the days of evil.

As the seconds turn into minutes, the minutes into hours, and hours into days, days into months and months into a year today we realise even more that you are never coming back to us we will have to come to you! We only hope and pray that we make it to God’s right hand where we know you now reside.

We loved you Yesterday, Today still and forever you will be in our hearts. Words fail to express how much we all miss you!

Rest on John Olusegun Adigun Adetayo our Jewel of Inestimable Value!

Signed – ‘Segun Adetayo’s Family

John Olusegun Adetayo was born to the family of Late David Adedokun Adetayo and Felicia Olajumoke Adetayo on the 9th of March 1953 as their first child/son. The family of Adetayo belongs to the popular ile Daodu of Ago-Are.

‘Segun started his primary education at L.A School Ago-Are and completed the process at the Baptist Day School, Ago-Are (1959-1964). He proceeded to Baptist Modern School and Baptist Grammar School, Ilora for his Secondary education between 1964 and 1972. 
 He excelled in all his activities in these schools as portrayed in various positions he held. Akin was a band leader, librarian and football player in the primary schools. He rose to the post of Students Christian Union Librarian and Games /Sports Prefect in Secondary School.

Initially ‘Segun took up a teaching appointment with the L.A School Ago-Are between 1973 and 1974, he later left for the company Post and Telecommunications Ilorin and worked as a postal Clerk for one year. In a bid to further improve in life he joined the First bank of Nigeria as a Clerical and Supervisory officer in September 1975 and by the grace of God rose up to the Pioneer Head, Monitoring unit of First Bank compliance department before he voluntarily retired in  January 2007. Since his retirement, ‘Segun had been managing FADETOLS until his demise.

While at First Bank, Adigun received different training both locally and abroad; he also sought for more knowledge privately by enrolling at the U.I Ventures University of Ibadan where he obtained a diploma in Accounting and Financial Computing (1994). In 1997, Adigun obtained another diploma in Management of Information systems from IMIS England. Further in pursuit of knowledge, he enrolled for an Advance Diploma in General Management at the then Ogun State University Consultancy services (Now Olabisi Onabanjo University) and completed in 1997. In fulfilment of his aspiration to have a degree qualification, Daddy studied Public Administration at the Lead City University (2004-2008) and was awarded the best graduating student in the department for that year.

‘Segun ventured into active politics in the year 2006 when he joined the Action Congress and remained in politics until his victorious exit. He became a prominent member of the ACN in 2009 and worked very hard in the course of the campaigns for the 2011 Elections especially in the Oke-Ogun area. He was a member of different social and community groups like SENECO group and the Oke Ogun elite forum where he pulled his weight.

Olusegun got married to his heartthrob, Oluremi nee Ayodele on the 28th of November 1980 and the marriage is blessed with children. He was a great husband, the best father to his children, a great brother to his siblings, a committed co-worker in God’s vineyard to church members, trustworthy to his friends , a great pillar to his community and an adopted brother  to his in-laws. Olusegun bagged many awards of honour in his lifetime including ‘The Most Patriotic Man of the year’ (2009) in Ago-Are.

Indeed ‘SEGUN was Sincere, Selfless and Sacrificial;

Emphatic, Enduring and Energetic;

Generous, Great and Goodly in all things;

Understanding and Unassuming and

Nice, Neat and Nationalistic.


OLUSEGUN made a Victorious Exit on the 1st of July 2011.