It was a night of thankfulness and recollection of what Dr. Franklin Ad toejuwon is, as family members and friends converged to celebrate him at 80.

The one-time Commissioner for Home Affairs and Tourism in Lagos State under the Mike Akhigbe and Raji Rasaki military administrations and later served as Minister of Agriculture.

he’s at home with tourism and aviation, helping in the setting up of the National Tourism Board and drawing the nation’s Tourism Master Plan, a feat he achieved in collaboration with the United Nations World Tourism Organisation.

For Adejuwon, he believes that whatever success you achieve in life is not by being intelligent or better than other beings, but by the grace and mercy of God.

“When I was young, I had a lot of health problems. At the age of six months, I had smallpox; at that time, any family that had it was an abandoned family; the person was seen as evil, and such a person was discarded in society. By the special grace…