A former Osun State Commissioner for health, Lanre Afolabi is dead.
AMILOADED gathered that Lanre Afolabi, who served as Osun State Commissioner for Health during the tenure of Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola between 2003 -2010 , reportedly passed on in a private hospital in Osogbo on Friday, after a brief illness.
Lanre Afolabi is one the sons of Late Chief S. M Afolabi, former Deputy Governor of Old Oyo State and Minister of Internal Affair during the regime of President Olusegun Obasanjo.
He was a native of Iree in Boripe Local Government Area of Osun State.
A source close to the family of the deceased, who preferred anonymity because he was not authorised to speak on the issue, said he took ill in his residence in Iree, Osun state late on Thursday.
“He took ill late on Thursday and he was rushed to a hospital in Osogbo. He died around 1:30 on Friday,” the source said.
The ex-commissioner had been quite inactive politically since leaving office in November 2010.
The chairman, Iree Development Association, Oluwole Taiwo, in a chat confirmed Lanre’s death.
When asked if the news of the death was true, Taiwo simply said, “It is true, but I don’t want to talk now. I may call you back.”
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