The immediate Past Governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi has been confirmed dead.
He was aged 70.
According to information gathered, the astute politician has been on a life support machine for some time at the First Cardiology Hospital in Ikoyi, Lagos, after he slipped into a coma following Coronavirus complications.
Among those who have confirmed the death is Akin Alabi, a federal law maker from Oyo State, who simply wrote in his twitter page, “Forever in my heart”.
Ajimobi was born on December 16, 1949 and died June 25, 2020. A Nigerian politician from Ibadan in Oyo State, South West, Nigeria, who rose to the level of Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the National Oil and Chemical Marketing Company a subsidiary of Shell Petroleum, Nigeria.
Ajimobi left the oil sector in 2002 and joined active politics. He was elected in 2003 as a Senator of the Republic of Nigeria representing Oyo South Senatorial District on the platform of the Alliance for Democracy (AD). In 2007, he contested for the governorship of Oyo state under the All Nigerian People’s Party, (ANPP) and lost to Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala. He won the governorship election of April 2011 under Action Congress of Nigeria (ACD). as well as 2015 governorship election, making him the first to govern the state twice.
Few days to his death, while on life support, All Progressives Congress (APC) appointed him as its Acting National Chairman after Adams Oshiomhole was suspended by the court, but the appointment was nullified by President Muhammadu Buhari after some legal tussle.
Bdelow is one of the recent interviews he granted, where he said he told God that for someone to be 70 is enough. He said his father died two months to 70.
He, however, said he changed his mind and want to live longer than 70, a wish which did not go through.
