Leader of the Yoruba Socio-Cultural Group, Egbe Afenifere (ILOSIWAJU YORUBA), Senator Ayo Fasanmi is dead.
He died at the age of 94 years. He would have been 95 on September 27.
According to a statement signed by his son, Folabi Fasanmi, he passed on peacefully in Osogbo on Wednesday night.
He stated that burial arrangements will be announced by his immediate family in after consultation with political associates and the South West Governors.
“The Second Republic senator who until his death was a leader of the Yoruba Socio-Cultural Group, Egbe Afenifere (ILOSIWAJU YORUBA) and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, passed on peacefully in Osogbo on Wednesday night.
“The burial arrangement will be announced by his immediate family in conjunction with his political associates and the South-West governors.”
Fasanmi joined the Obafemi Awolowo-led Unity Party of Nigeria in 1978 and was a candidate in the Ondo State governorship primary election.
The late pharmacist lost the election to Adekunle Ajasin.
