A Yoruba leader, Pa Ayo Fasanmi, is dead.
The family, speaking through his son, Folabi, on Thursday, said the revered leader died on Wednesday night.
Folabi noted that the elder statesman died “at the ripe age of 94 years”.
Fasanmi, a Second Republic Senator, was, until his death, a leader of the Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere (Ilosiwaju Yoruba) and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The statement confirmed that Fasanmi passed on peacefully in Osogbo
Burial arrangements will be announced by the family in conjunction with his political associates and Southwest governors.
Fasanmi was born on September 25, 1925.
