ODUA PEOPLE'S CONGRESS LEADER -FASEHUN DEAD!

Dr. Frederick Faseun, the leader of the Yoruba sociocultural group, Oodua People's Congress (OPC) is dead.

The 83-year-old died in the early hours of Saturday at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, after spending four days in the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital.

Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, has described the death of the founder of Odua Peoples Congress, Dr Frederick Fasehun, as a big loss to the country.

Describing the OPC founder’s death as a shattering news, the Afenifere Publicity Secretary, Mr Yinka Odumakin, said the deceased would be greatly missed.

Born in Ondo town, Ondo State, in 1935, Fasehun was a medical doctor and hotel owner and was responsible for the recent revival of the Unity Party of Nigeria, a party formed by the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo in the 1970s.

He formed the OPC to actualise the annulled mandate of Chief MKO Abiola, widely reputed to have won the June 12, 1993 presidential election, a poll annulled by the military ruler, Ibrahim Babangida.

Fasehun was subsequently imprisoned for 19 months from December 1996 to June 1998 during the military rule of the late military dictator, General Sani Abacha.