Kwara’s pioneer grand Qoodi Justice AbdulKadir Orire is dead.
A close source while announcing Justice Orire’s return to Allah says, “Inna lillahi wa inna ilehi rojiuna. This is to announce the death of our father, Maolana Justice Abdulkadir Orire CON, former Grand Qoodi of Kwara State this evening, burial arrangement is slated for tomorrow Wednesday 27 January, 2021.
Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara, in his condolence message said, “today, our state lost of one of its finest jurists, a founding father, and indeed a national statesman, retired Justice AbdulKadir Orire (CON), who was the pioneer Grand Khadi of the Kwara State Sharia Court of Appeal between 1975 and 1999.
He died at the ripe age of 87.