Pa Ayo Fasanmi, a prominent leader of Yoruba, South West Region of Nigeria, is dead.
The Afenifere stalwart reportedly died Wednesday night but demise
was confirmed on Thursday by his son, Folabi.
Folabi noted that the elder statesman died “at the ripe age
of 94 years”.
Fasanmi was a Second Republic Senator.
“He was until his death was a leader of the Yoruba
socio-cultural group, Afenifere (Ilosiwaju Yoruba) and a chieftain of the All
Progressives Congress (APC)”, it noted
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The statement confirmed that Fasanmi passed on peacefully in
Osogbo
Burial arrangement will be announced by the family in conjunction with his political associates and South-West Nigeria Governors.
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