A former governorship candidate in Kogi State
and a front line Afenifere member, Prince Rotimi
Obadofin is dead.
Obadofin, who hailed from Aiyegunle Gbede, in
Ijumu Local Government area of Kogi State was
one time governorship candidate of the defunct
Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, before it merged
into the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Obadofin who was said to have died in Oshogbo,
Osun State on Thursday night from ruptured
appendix also contested the governorship ticket of
APC in last year’s election but lost the ticket to late
Prince Abubakar Audu.
The Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello has
expressed shock over the death of Obadofin,
whom he (Bello) described as a ‘frontline
progressive’ who displayed exemplary zeal for the
actualization of civil rule in Nigeria.
Bello in a statement signed by his Chief Press
Secretary, Kingsley Fanwo, described the late
Obadofin as a “Pragmatic democrat, fiery human
right defender and a believer in the core ethos of
Afenifere, a Yoruba socio-cultural group that
wrestled power from khakistocrats and returned
the nation to representative democracy.”
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