Nigerians woke up on July 30, 2020, to receive the news of the sudden demise of the Leader of Afenifere, Senator Ayorinde Fasanmi.
His death was announced by his first son, Hon. Justice Obafemi Fasanmi on behalf of the family.
However, AMILOADED has revealed some facts you should know about him.
1. Ayorinde Fasanmi was a respected politician and the National Leader of the Afenifere group.
2. He was born in 1925 at Iye Ekiti, a local government area of Ekiti State, southwestern Nigeria. He attended St Paul’s primary school, Ebutte Metta and Government School, Ibadan before he proceeded to the Pharmacy School of Yaba where he received a diploma certificate in pharmacy.
3. He practiced as a pharmacist at Osogbo, Osun State, briefly before he joined the Nigerian politics.
4. He joined the Unity Party of Nigeria in 1978 and was a candidate in the Ondo State gubernatorial primary election but lost to Michael Adekunle Ajasin, the former governor of Ondo State.
5. In 1983, he was elected member of the Federal House of Representatives representing Ondo North. He later served as member of the Board of Directors of the Old Western Nigeria Housing Corporation. During the Fourth Nigerian Republic, he served as the National Vice Chairman of the Alliance for Democracy, Southwest zone.
6. He was National President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria in 1977 and also served with the National Constitutional Conference Commission in 1994, as a member.
7. He was married to the late Madam Adejoke who died at the age of 82 years in October 2014.
8. Pa Ayorinde Fasanmi died on Wednesday’s night on July 29 at the age of 94.
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